Weather in northwest Orange County for Friday, May 10, 2019:
Today:
A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 69. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight:
A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
A slight chance of showers is possible through the weekend, with high temperatures in the low to mid 70s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1676 Bacon’s Rebellion begins in the New World.
- 1730 Birth of George Ross, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1773 To keep the troubled East India Company afloat, Parliament passes the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the American colonies.
- 1775 American troops capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
- 1838 Birth of John Wilkes Booth, actor, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
- 1840 Mormon leader Joseph Smith moves his band of followers to Illinois to escape the hostilities they experienced in Missouri.
- 1863 General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson succumbs to illness and wounds received during the Battle of Chancellorsville.
- 1865 Union cavalry troops capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis near Irvinville, Georgia.
- 1869 The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah.
- 1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes first the woman nominated for U.S. president.
- 1899 Birth of Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz), American dancer and actor.
- 1924 J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- 1928 WGY-TV in Schenectady, New York, begins regular television programming.
- 1960 The USS Nautilus completes the first circumnavigation of the globe underwater.