Weather in northwest Orange County for Sunday, February 9, 2020:
Today:
A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight:
A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 47. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Mostly sunny skies are expected for the remaining week, with highs in the 60s and lows in the 40s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1773 Birth of William Henry Harrison, ninth U.S. President and the first to die in office.
- 1799 The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies.
- 1819 Birth of Lydia E. Pinkham, patent-medicine maker and entrepeneur.
- 1825 The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. President.
- 1861 Jefferson F. Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
- 1864 Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon in their hometown of Monroe, Mich.
- 1922 The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission.
- 1951 Actress Greta Garbo gets U.S. citizenship.
- 1964 The U.S. embassy in Moscow is stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students.