The Weather:
The sun rose over Ketchikan at 4:06 am
and set at 9:32 pm
Local high: 61° F
Local low: 46° F
Precipitation: 0.03 inches
The nation's weather extremes were
117° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 30° at Barrow, Wasilla and Eureka, Alaska, and Stanley and Cascade, Idaho
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
8322.91
Minimum Wage was $7.15
and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
Loaf of Bread: $2.49
Gallon of Milk: $4.37
Average New Home: $185,000.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline: $3.21
Populations:
Ketchikan: 8,460
U.S. Population: 307,733,890 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "The Proposal"
Gunnar Patrick shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1798 - Jedediah Smith - American mountain-man, explorer and fur-trader who was the first European-American to enter California from the east and return from it using an overland route.
1864 - Thomas Blanchard - American inventor whose development of a lathe duplicator was an essential ingredient in the ability to mass-produce products.
1895 - Jack Dempsey - American professional boxer and heavyweight champion of the world who is considered to be among the greatest boxers of all-time.
1911 - Juan Fangio - Argentine automobile race driver. Perhaps the greatest race driver of all time, Fangio dominated Formula I throughout the 1950's, winning the World Championship five times.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1497 - Captain John Cabot and his crew became the first Europeans recorded to have set foot on the North American continent.
1735 - Thirteen year-old Edward Warren of Baltimore, Maryland, made the first manned balloon flight in America.
1916 - Mary Pickford signed Hollywood's first seven-figure contract with Paramount Pictures. The deal earned her more than $1 million over a two-year period.
Happy Birthday
Gunnar
from your friends at
Ketchikan General Hospital.
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