Today:
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 67. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 45. East wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Highs are forecast to remain in the upper 60s to low 70s, with mostly sunny skies and lows in the 40s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1799 George Washington dies on his Mount Vernon estate.
1819 Alabama is admitted as the 22nd state, making 11 slave states and 11 free states.
1863 Confederate General James Longstreet attacks Union troops at Bean’s Station, Tenn.
1896 Birth of James H. Doolittle, American Air Force general who commanded the first bombing mission over Japan.