Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, May 30, 2020:
Today:
Partly sunny, with a high near 74. Light southwest wind becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight:
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light southwest in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Highs are forecast to remain in the mid-70s, with partly to mostly sunny skies.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida with 600 soldiers in search of gold.
- 1783 The first American daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, begins publishing in Philadelphia.
- 1848 William Young patents the ice cream freezer.
- 1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals the Missouri Compromise.
- 1862 Union General Henry Halleck enters Corinth, Mississippi.
- 1867 Birth of Arthur Vining Davis, American industrialist.
- 1868 Memorial Day begins when two women place flowers on both Confederate and Union graves.
- 1889 The brassiere is invented.
- 1908 Birth of Mel Blanc, American entertainer, vocal artist.
- 1912 U.S. Marines are sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests.
- 1921 The U.S. Navy transfers the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior.
- 1971 NASA launches Mariner 9, the first satellite to orbit Mars.