Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, May 8, 2021:
Today:
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 72. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 57. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light.
Highs are expected to gradually remain in the 70s over the course of the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River which he calls Rio de Espiritu Santo.
- 1794 The United States Post Office is established.
- 1829 Birth of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist.
- 1846 The first major battle of the Mexican War is fought at Palo Alto, Texas.
- 1862 General ‘Stonewall’ Jackson repulses the Federals at the Battle of McDowell, in the Shenendoah Valley.
- 1864 Union troops arrive at Spotsylvania Court House to find the Confederates waiting for them.
- 1884 Birth of Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953).
- 1886 Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
- 1904 U.S. Marines land in Tangier, North Africa, to protect the Belgian legation.
- 1910 Birth of Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist and composer.
- 1919 The first transatlantic flight by a navy seaplane takes-off.
- 1920 Birth of Sloan Wilson, American author (The man in the Gray Flannel Suit, A Summer Place).
- 1928 Birth of Theodore Sorensen, advisor to John F. Kennedy.
- 1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends.
- 1945 The final surrender of German forces is celebrated as VE (Victory Europe) day.
- 1958 President Dwight Eisenhower orders the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green becomes the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
- 1967 Boxer Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.
- 1984 The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.