Daily Briefing for June 23: Car Show and Collector Festival

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TIDBITS:

Today and tomorrow the town of St. Ignace on Michigan's Upper Peninsula will play host to the 36th annual Car Show and Collector Vehicle Festival. The town, which does not have a single stop light, is normally home to 2,500 people but will welcome about 80,000 during the two day festival. Each year, close to 19 million Americans attend car shows. See video for more. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.

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FORECAST FROM DACULAWEATHER.COM:

• Today: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. Calm wind becoming southwest between 5 and 10 mph. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
• Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67. West wind between 5 and 10 mph.

TODAY IN HISTORY: 

• 1776: Commodore Parker prepares for a naval strike on Charleston.
• 1902: "Mercedes" registered as a brand name.
• 1972: Title IX enacted.
• 1987: Tiffany visits the mall on her way to stardom.

Forecast obtained from DaculaWeather.com; 'Today in History' items compiled from History.com and Tidbits provided by the United States Census Bureau.

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