Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, January 22, 2019:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 68. East wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the morning.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 43. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
Sunny skies are forecast for at least the next week, with highs rising above average in the 70s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1807 President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest.
- 1813 During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor defeat a US contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit.
- 1863 In an attempt to out flank Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose Burnside leads his army on a march to north Fredericksburg, but foul weather bogs his army down in what will become known as the “Mud March.”
- 1944 US troops under Major General John P. Lucas make an amphibious landing behind German lines at Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome.
- 1982 President Ronald Reagan formally links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland.