Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, March 14, 2020:
Today:
A chance of showers, mainly before 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 65. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight:
A slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 53. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
High temperatures are expected to remain in the 60s, with a chance of precipitation through next week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1629 A Royal charter is granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1743 First American town meeting is held at Boston’s Faneuil Hall.
- 1794 Inventor Eli Whitney receives a patent for his cotton gin.
- 1864 Birth of Casey Jones, railroad engineer.
- 1879 Birth of Albert Einstein, German-born mathematician best known for his theories on relativity.
- 1900 United States currency goes on the gold standard.
- 1903 The Senate ratifies the Hay-Herran Treaty, guaranteeing the United States the right to build a canal in Panama.
- 1923 President Warren G. Harding becomes the first U.S. President to file an income tax report.
- 1934 Birth of Eugene Cernan, American astronaut, the last man on the moon.
- 1947 The United States signs a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines.
- 1951 U.N. forces recapture Seoul for the second time during the Korean War.
- 1964 A Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
- 1967 John F. Kennedy’s body is moved from a temporary grave to a permanent one in Arlington Cemetery.