Weather in northwest Orange County for Friday, May 8, 2020:
Today:
Areas of fog before 11am. Otherwise, cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 79. Light southwest wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Tonight:
Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a low around 59. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Highs are forecast to remain mild with morning clouds for the coming week.
Heat Advisory in effect from May 5, 10:00 AM PDT until May 8, 09:00 PM PDT
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River which he calls Rio de Espiritu Santo.
- 1794 The United States Post Office is established.
- 1846 The first major battle of the Mexican War is fought at Palo Alto, Texas.
- 1862 General ‘Stonewall’ Jackson repulses the Federals at the Battle of McDowell, in the Shenendoah Valley.
- 1864 Union troops arrive at Spotsylvania Court House to find the Confederates waiting for them.
- 1884 Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953).
- 1886 Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola.
- 1904 U.S. Marines land in Tangier, North Africa, to protect the Belgian legation.
- 1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends.
- 1945 The final surrender of German forces is celebrated as VE (Victory Europe) day.
- 1952 Allied fighter-bombers stage the largest raid of the war on North Korea.
- 1958 President Dwight Eisenhower orders the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green becomes the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
- 1967 Boxer Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.
- 1984 The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.