1970 - A lightning bolt struck a group of football players at Gibbs High School in Saint Petersburg FL, killing two persons and injuring 22 others. All the thirty-eight players and four coaches were knocked off their feet.
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Day: Sunny. High near 69, with temperatures falling to around 67 in the afternoon. Northwest wind 0 to 10 mph.
Night: Mostly clear. Low around 43, with temperatures rising to around 45 overnight. East southeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 74. South wind 0 to 5 mph.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 50. South southeast wind around 5 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.
Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 78.
Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56.
Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 61.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 82.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 60.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 84.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 61.
Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 85.
Sat's High Temperature
110 at Death Valley, CA and Stovepipe Wells, CA
Sat's Low Temperature
23 at 16 Miles West Of Redfeather Lakes, CO
Olympia Fields is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,718 as of the 2020 census. It is a southern suburb of Chicago. The municipality grew up around the prestigious Olympia Fields Country Club, originally established in 1915.
Olympia Fields is noteworthy as one of the wealthiest and best educated, majority African-American communities in the United States. The village's zip code (60461) is one of three majority African American communities which rank among the top five percent in the U.S. for median household income and share of adults with college degrees, and Olympia Fields also has the highest black homeownership rate in the country among majority-black municipalities.
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