Weather in northwest Orange County for Friday, January 28, 2022:
Today:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Light and variable wind becoming east 15 to 20 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 48. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Highs are expected to remain in the 70s until next week, with mostly sunny skies.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1912 Birth of Jackson Pollock, influential abstract expressionist painter.
- 1915 The German navy attacks the U.S. freighter William P. Frye, loaded with wheat for Britain.
- 1915 The U.S. Coast Guard is founded to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
- 1921 Albert Einstein startles Berlin by suggesting the possibility of measuring the universe.
- 1936 A fellow prison inmate slashes infamous kidnapper, Richard Loeb, to death.
- 1955 The U.S. Congress passes a bill allowing mobilization of troops if China should attack Taiwan.
- 1964 The Soviets down a U.S. jet over East Germany, killing three.
- 1986 The space shuttle Challenger explodes just after liftoff.