Weather in northwest Orange County for Monday, July 19, 2021:
Today:
Sunny, with a high near 86. Light southwest wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 70. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Highs are expected to return to the low 80s for the rest of the week, with mostly sunny skies.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1814 Birth of Samuel Colt, gunmaker, inventor of the first practical revolver.
- 1848 The first Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y, organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- 1865 Birth of Charles Mayo, American surgeon, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic.
- 1922 Birth of George McGovern, U.S. senator and presidential candidate.
- 1942 German U-boats are withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to American anti-submarine countermeasures.
- 1943 More than 150 B-17 and 112 B-24 bombers attack Rome for the first time.
- 1975 Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts dock in orbit.