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Sunny, with a high near 75. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly clear, with a low around 47. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Temperatures are forecast to remain in the upper 60s to lower 70s for the next week, with a slight chance of rain Tuesday night through Wednesday.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1642 York, Maine becomes the first incorporated American city.
1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are arrested for the supposed practice of witchcraft in Salem, Mass.
1776 French minister Charles Gravier advises his Spanish counterpart to support the American rebels against the English.
Posted on February 20, 2021.
The “mistake” that recently occurred on the U.S. ambassador to Israel’s Twitter account may indicate a political trend in the U.S. State Department; rushing to return to Obama’s policies.
“In the morning you can already see that it is going to be a beautiful day.” This is what my late mother, bless her memory, used to say to cynically or ironically describe a human situation that came up when the context demanded it. I would say that this expression also applies to the “mistake” that occurred on the new U.S. ambassador to Israel’s Twitter account when the account’s name changed to “US Ambassador to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza,” right after the new president took office and the Zionist Ambassador David Friedman retired. This mistake foretells, from the first morning of Joe Biden’s presidency, what will come next.
Robert A. Altman, Who Sold ZeniMax Game Studio to Microsoft, Dies
Dina Bass, Christopher Palmeri and Devon Pendleton, Bloomberg News LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 05: ZeniMax Media Chairman/CEO Robert A. Altman attends the Fallout 4 video game launch event in downtown Los Angeles on November 5, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Bethesda) , Photographer: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images
(Bloomberg) Robert A. Altman, the entrepreneur who recovered from a banking scandal to lead a popular video-game maker and sell it to Microsoft Corp., has died. He was 73.
Altman was co-founder and chief executive officer of ZeniMax Media Inc., whose Bethesda studio publishes celebrated game series like the Elder Scrolls, Doom and Fallout. Bethesda didnât state the cause of death in a tweet.
Actor Hal Holbrook, indelible portrayer of Mark Twain, dies at 95 Adam Bernstein In a remarkable feat of theatrical longevity, actor Hal Holbrook, who died Jan. 23 at 95, played Samuel Clemens better known as Mark Twain in a solo show for nearly as long as the American humorist and iconoclast was alive.
“Mark Twain Tonight!” which Mr. Holbrook conceived and debuted in 1954 earned him a Tony Award on Broadway in 1966 and captivated more than 20 million viewers in a CBS telecast in 1967. Into his 90s, he was still crisscrossing the globe, weaving Twain’s stories and quips into a peppery monologue about mankind’s pretensions and vices.