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Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, June 8, 2022:
Today:
Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 81. Light south wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight:
Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a low around 64. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
High temperatures are expected to reach the upper-mid 80s at the end of the week before gradually dropping, with lows in the mid-60s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1813 Birth of David D. Porter, Union admiral during the American Civil War.
- 1861 Tennessee votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.
- 1862 The Army of the Potomac defeats Confederate forces at Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia.
- 1863 Residents of Vicksburg flee into caves as General Ulysses S. Grant’s army begins shelling the town.
- 1867 Birth of Frank Lloyd Wright, influential American architect.
- 1904 U.S. Marines land in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens.
- 1915 William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson.
- 1925 Birth of Barbara Pierce Bush, First Lady to 41st President George H. W. Bush.
- 1953 The Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington, D.C.
- 1965 President Lyndon Johnson authorizes commanders in Vietnam to commit U.S. ground forces to combat.
- 1966 Gemini astronaut Gene Cernan attempts to become the first man to orbit the Earth untethered to a space capsule, but is unable to when he exhausts himself fitting into his rocket pack.
- 1967 Israeli airplanes attack the USS Liberty, a surveillance ship, in the Mediterranean, killing 34 Navy crewmen.
- 1968 James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., is captured at the London Airport.
- 1969 President Richard Nixon meets with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops will pull out by August.
- 1995 U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
