Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, April 16, 2020:
Today:
Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 67. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 54. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming southeast after midnight.
Temperatures are remain in the 60s until the new week, with partly to mostly sunny skies.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1818 The U.S. Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border.
- 1862 Confederate President Jefferson Davis approves a conscription act for white males between 18 and 35.
- 1862 Slavery is abolished in the District of Columbia.
- 1867 Birth of Wilbur Wright, designer, builder and flyer of the first airplane.
- 1889 Birth of Charlie Chaplin, film actor and director.
- 1922 Annie Oakley shoots 100 clay targets in a row, setting a woman’s record.
- 1945 The destroyer USS Laffey survives horrific damage from attacks by 22 Japanese aircraft off Okinawa, earning the nickname “The Ship That Would Not Die.”
- 1945 American troops enter Nuremberg, Germany.
- 1947 A lens which provides zoom effects is demonstrated in New York City.
- 1968 The Pentagon announces the “Vietnamization” of the war.
- 1972 Two giants pandas arrive in the U.S. from China.