On this day in…
1979: It was a scorching 123° at Palm Springs, the highest temperature on record. This also occurred on 6.28.1995 and 6.29.1995, and on 8.1.1993.
1913: It was 134° at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, the highest temperature on record for the Western Hemisphere and only two degrees off the world record of 136° [...]

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