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Today:
Sunny, with a high near 85. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 61. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.
Highs are expected to remain in the 80s briefly before gradually dropping back to seasonable levels.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1607 Captain Christopher Newport and 105 followers found the colony of Jamestown at the mouth of the James River on the coast of Virginia.
1610 Sir Thomas Gates institutes “laws divine moral and marshal, ” a harsh civil code for Jamestown.
1624 After years of unprofitable operation, Virginia’s charter is revoked and it becomes a royal colony.