Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, February 13, 2021:
Today:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 48. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Temperatures are forecast to hover in the upper 60s to low 70s, with mostly sunny skies.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1862 The four day Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, begins.
- 1865 The Confederacy approves the recruitment of slaves as soldiers, as long as the approval of their owners is gained.
- 1866 Jesse James holds up his first bank.
- 1914 The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is founded.
- 1920 The Negro National League, the first black baseball league, is established by Rube Foster.
- 1922 Birth of Harold “Hal” Moore Jr., US Army lieutenant general, author
- 1936 First Social Security checks are put in the mail.
- 1953 The Pope asks the United States to grant clemency to convicted spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
- 1968 The United States sends 10,500 more combat troops to Vietnam.
- 1970 General Motors is reportedly redesigning automobiles to run on unleaded fuel.
- 1972 Enemy attacks in Vietnam decline for the third day as the United States continues its intensive bombing strategy.