Today:
Sunny, with a high near 73. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Temperatures are expected to rise into the upper 70s, peaking Monday.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1795 Birth of George Peabody, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
1861 Jefferson F. Davis is inaugurated as the Confederacy’s provisional president at a ceremony held in Montgomery, Ala.
1862 Birth of Charles M. Schwab, “Boy Wonder” of the steel industry. President of both U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel.
1865 Union troops force the Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson, N.C.
1878 The bitter and bloody Lincoln County War begins with the murder of Billy the Kid’s mentor, Englishman rancher John Tunstall.