Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, June 18, 2020:
Today:
Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 72. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 60. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Highs are expected to remain in the mid to upper 70s over the course of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1775 The British take Bunker Hill outside of Boston, after a costly battle.
- 1812 The War of 1812 begins when the United States declares war against Great Britain.
- 1856 The Republican Party opens its first national convention in Philadelphia.
- 1857 Birth of Henry Clay Folger, American lawyer and businessman, co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
- 1861 President Abraham Lincoln witnesses Dr. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrate the use of a hot-air balloon.
- 1863 On the way to Gettysburg, Union and Confederate forces skirmish at Point of Rocks, Maryland.
- 1863 After repeated acts of insubordination, General Ulysses S. Grant relieves General John McClernand during the Siege of Vicksburg.
- 1864 At Petersburg, Union General Ulysses S. Grant realizes the town can no longer be taken by assault and settles into a siege.
- 1872 George M. Hoover begins selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas–a town which had previously been “dry.”
- 1873 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote for president.
- 1876 General George Crook’s command is attacked and bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse.
- 1913 U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico.
- 1928 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane.
- 1930 The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill becomes law, placing the highest tariff on imports to the United States.
- 1932 The U.S. Senate defeats the Bonus Bill as 10,000 veterans mass around the Capitol.
- 1942 The U.S. Navy commissions its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.
- 1963 The U.S. Supreme Court bans the required reading of the Lord’s prayer and Bible in public schools.
- 1966 Samuel Nabrit becomes the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission.
- 1972 Five men are arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
- 1979 President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the Salt II pact to limit nuclear arms.
- 1983 Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.