Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, January 15, 2019:
Today:
Rain. High near 61. East wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight:
Rain. Low around 52. South wind 10 to 15 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
There will be a chance of precipitation for most of the week, with highs in the 60s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1716 Birth of Philip Livingston, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1811 In a secret session, Congress plans to annex Spanish East Florida.
- 1823 Birth of Mathew Brady, Civil War photographer.
- 1865 Union troops capture Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
- 1908 Birth of Edward Teller, Hungarian-born U.S. physicist known as the “Father of the H-bomb.”
- 1913 The first telephone line between Berlin and New York is inaugurated.
- 1920 The Dry Law goes into effect in the United States. Selling liquor and beer becomes illegal.
- 1920 The United States approves a $150 million loan to Poland, Austria and Armenia to aid in their war with the Russian communists.
- 1927 The Dumbarton Bridge opens in San Francisco carrying the first auto traffic across the bay.
- 1929 Birth of Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1929 The U.S. Senate ratifies the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact.
- 1930 Amelia Earhart sets an aviation record for women at 171 mph in a Lockheed Vega.
- 1944 The U.S. Fifth Army successfully breaks the German Winter Line in Italy with the capture of Mount Trocchio.
- 1967 Some 462 Yale faculty members call for an end to the bombing in North Vietnam.
- 1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action by U.S. troops in Vietnam.
- 1973 Four of six remaining Watergate defendants plead guilty.
- 1976 Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison for her failed attempt to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
- 1991 The UN deadline for Iraq to withdraw its forces from occupied Kuwait passes, setting the stage for Operation Desert Storm.
- 2001 Wikipedia goes online.