Today:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly sunny skies and highs remaining in low 70s are expected for the coming week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1811 Birth of Charles Sumner, anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts.
1861 The Governor of Maryland, Thomas Hicks, announces his opposition to the state’s possible secession from the Union.
1878 Birth of Carl Sandburg, U.S. journalist, poet and biographer.
1882 Birth of Sam Rayburn, U.S. Congressman from Texas & Speaker of the House (1940-46, 1949-53).
1912 New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state of the Union.
1912 Birth of Danny Thomas, actor, producer, philanthropist; founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.