Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, May 23, 2020:
Today:
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 73. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Highs are forecast to rise into the lower 80s for the Memorial Day weekend.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.
- 1788 South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
- 1820 Birth of James Buchanan Eads, engineer of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis
- 1861 Pro-Union and pro-Confederate forces clash in western Virginia.
- 1862 Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson takes Front Royal, Virginia.
- 1864 Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in the Battle of North Anna, Virginia.
- 1875 Birth of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president and chairman of the board for General Motors.
- 1900 Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
- 1934 Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers.