Northwest Orange County weather for Friday, October 29, 2021

Northwest Orange County weather for Friday, October 29, 2021:

Today:

Sunny, with a high near 82. Wind calm becoming southerly around 5 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight:

Scattered fog after midnight. Otherwise increasing clouds, to a low around 58. Southerly wind around 5 mph.

High temperatures are expected to continue to drop, returning to the lower 70s.

Courtesy of HistoryNet:

• 1814 The Demologos, the first steam warship, launched in New York.
• 1901 Leon Czolgosz is electrocuted for the assassination of US President William McKinley. Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot McKinley on September 6 during a public reception at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, NY Despite early hopes for a cure, McKinley died on September 14 in Buffalo, NY.
• 1921 Birth of Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist whose GI characters “Willie” and “Joe” appeared in Stars and Stripes newspapers during World War II.
• 1929 Black Tuesday – the most catastrophic day in stock market history, the herald of the Great Depression. 16 million shares were sold at declining prices. By mid-November, $ 30 billion of the 80 billion shares listed in September will have been wiped out.
• 1938 Birth of Ralph Bakshi, American-Palestinian director of live films and animated feature films for adults including
• 1972 Fritz the Cat (the first animated film to be rated X by the Motion Picture Association of America), Wizards (1977) and The Lord of the Rings (1978).
• [1945[1945 The first ballpoint pen is sold by Gimbell’s department store in New York City for $ 12.
• 1949 Alonzo G. Moron of the Virgin Islands becomes the first African-American president of the Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia.
• 1964 Thieves steal a collection of jewelry, including the world’s largest sapphire, the 565-carat “Star of India” and the 100-carat DeLong ruby, from the Museum of Natural History in New York. The thieves were arrested and most of the jewelry recovered.
• 1969 The United States Supreme Court orders immediate desegregation, replacing the previous ruling “at full speed will deliberate.”
• 1969 First computer-to-computer link; the link is made via ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet.
• 2004 For the first time, Osama bin Laden admits his direct responsibility in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States; his comments are part of a video released by the Al Jazeera network.
• 2008 Delta and Northwest Airlines merge to form the world’s largest airline.
• 2012 Hurricane Sandy devastates much of the east coast of the United States; nearly 300 died directly or indirectly from the storm.