Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, February 9, 2021:
Today:
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. East wind around 5 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Temperatures are expected to remain at seasonable levels in the 60s, with mostly sunny skies and a slight chance of rain later in the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1773 Birth of William Henry Harrison, ninth U.S. President and the first to die in office.
- 1799 The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies.
- 1825 The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. President.
- 1861 Jefferson F. Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
- 1864 Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon in their hometown of Monroe, Mich.
- 1909 Birth of Dean Rusk, Secretary of State under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1922 The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission.
- 1951 Actress Greta Garbo gets U.S. citizenship.
- 1964 The U.S. embassy in Moscow is stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students.