Today:
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 45. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph.
Highs are forecast to gradually drop to seasonable levels by Tuesday, with partly to mostly sunny skies.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1860 South Carolina secedes from the Union.
1868 Birth of Harvey Firestone, industrialist and tire maker.
1881 Birth of Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1901 Birth of Robert J. Van de Graff, physicist, invented the Van de Graaff generator.
1914 Birth of Harry F. Byrd Jr., first independent ever elected to US Senate by a majority of the popular vote (Virginia).
1938 First electronic television system is patented.
1941 The Flying Tigers, American pilots in China, enter combat against the Japanese over Kunming.