Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, February 3, 2021:
Today:
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 62. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 46. Calm wind.
Temperatures are expected to rise slightly over the weekend, with mostly sunny skies, before returning to seasonable levels.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1690 The first paper money in America is issued in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1783 Spain recognizes United States’ independence.
- 1811 Birth of Horace Greely, founder of the New York Tribune and abolitionist.
- 1821 Birth of Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to get an MD from a U.S. medical school.
- 1874 Birth of Gertrude Stein, poet and novelist (Three Lives, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas).
- 1894 Birth of Norman Rockwell, artist and illustrator who painted scenes of small-town America. Most of his work appeared in the The Saturday Evening Post.
- 1904 Colombian troops clash with U.S. Marines in Panama.
- 1908 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that union-sponsored boycotts are illegal, and applies the Sherman Antitrust Act to labor as well as capital.
- 1912 New U.S. football rules are set: field shortened to 100 yds.; touchdown counts six points instead of five; four downs are allowed instead of three; and the kickoff is moved from midfield to the 40 yd. line.
- 1917 A German submarine sinks the U.S. liner Housatonic off coast of Sicily. The United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany.
- 1927 President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission to regulate the airwaves.
- 1944 The United States shells the Japanese homeland for the first time at Kurile Islands.
- 1945 The month-long Battle of Manila begins.
- 1962 President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba.
- 1984 The Environmental Protection Agency orders a ban on the pesticide EDB for grain products.