Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, August 4, 2022:
Today:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Light south wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 69. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Highs temperatures are expected to remain in the low to mid 80s through the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1790 The Revenue Cutter service, the parent service of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, is organized.
- 1864 Federal troops fail to capture Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island, one of the Confederate forts defending Mobile Bay.
- 1875 The first Convention of Colored Newspapermen is held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- 1901 Birth of Louis Armstrong, legendary jazz trumpeter.
- 1952 Helicopters from the U.S. Air Force Air Rescue Service land in Germany, completing the first transatlantic flight by helicopter in 51 hours and 55 minutes of flight time.
- 1964 The bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E. Chaney, are discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam.
- 1964 The U.S.S. Maddox and Turner Joy exchange fire with North Vietnamese patrol boats.
- 1971 The U.S. launches the first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft (Apollo 15).
- 1972 Arthur Bremer is sentenced to 63 years for shooting Alabama governor George Wallace, later reduced to 53 years.
- 1979 President Jimmy Carter establishes the Department of Energy.
- 1988 The US Senate votes to give each Japanese-American who was interned during WWII $20,000 compensation and an apology.
- 2007 NASA launches the Phoenix spacecraft on a mission to Mars.