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Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, October 12, 2022:
Today:
Partly sunny, with a high near 79. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the evening.
Highs are expected to drop into the mid-70s at the end of the week, with a slight chance of thunderstorms over the weekend.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1809 Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies under mysterious circumstances in Tennessee.
- 1872 Apache leader Cochise signs a peace treaty with General Howard in Arizona Territory.
- 1933 Alcatraz Island is made a federal maximum security prison.
- 1943 The U.S. Fifth Army begins an assault crossing of the Volturno River in Italy.
- 1949 Eugenie Anderson becomes the first woman U.S. ambassador.
- 1970 President Richard Nixon announces the pullout of 40,000 more American troops in Vietnam by Christmas.
- 1971 The House of Representatives passes the Equal Rights Amendment 354-23.
- 1994 NASA loses contact with the Magellan probe spacecraft in the thick atmosphere of Venus.
- 2000 Suicide bombers at Aden, Yemen, damage USS Cole; 17 crew members killed and over 35 wounded.
