Weather in northwest Orange County for Monday, February 22, 2021:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 79. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph.
Tonight:
Sunny, with a high near 79. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph.
Temperatures are expected to drop back into the lower 70s over the course of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1732 Birth of George Washington, Commander-in-chief of Continental forces during the American Revolution and first U.S. President.
- 1778 Birth of Rembrandt Peale, American painter known for portraits of U.S. founding fathers.
- 1819 Spain signs a treaty with the United States ceding eastern Florida.
- 1825 Russia and Britain establish the Alaska/Canada boundary.
- 1862 Jefferson Davis is inaugurated president of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. for the second time.
- 1864 Nathan Bedford Forrest’s brother, Jeffrey, is killed at Okolona, Mississippi.
- 1865 Federal troops capture Wilmington, N.C.
- 1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth’s ‘nothing over five cents’ shop opens at Utica, New York. It is the first chain store.
- 1902 A fistfight breaks out in the Senate. Senator Benjamin Tillman suffers a bloody nose for accusing Senator John McLaurin of bias on the Philippine tariff issue.
- 1909 The Great White Fleet returns to Norfolk, Virginia, from an around-the-world show of naval power.
- 1920 The American Relief Administration appeals to the public to pressure Congress to aid starving European cities.
- 1924 Columbia University declares radio education a success.
- 1925 Birth of Edward Gorey, American writer and illustrator.
- 1932 Birth of Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts Senator, brother of John F. Kennedy.
- 1935 All plane flights over the White House are barred because they are disturbing President Roosevelt’s sleep.
- 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt orders Gen. Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philippines.
- 1951 The Atomic Energy Commission discloses information about the first atom-powered airplane.
- 1954 U.S. is to install 60 Thor nuclear missiles in Britain.
- 1962 A Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks is turned down by the U.S.
- 1963 Moscow warns the U.S. that an attack on Cuba would mean war.
- 1967 Operation Junction City becomes the largest U.S. operation in Vietnam.
- 1984 Britain and the U.S. send warships to the Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against Iraq.
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