The Weather:
The sun rose over Ketchikan at 7:14 am
and set at 5:50 pm
Local high: 48° F
Local low: 33° F
The nation's weather extremes were
96° recorded at Edinburg and McAllen, Texas
and 13° at Hibbing, Minn.
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
9885.80
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: 308,176,558 Jeffery Allan shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1754 - Molly Pitcher - An American Revolutionary War hero, honored for bravery at the battle of Monmouth where she carried water to injured colonial fighters and replaced her exhausted husband manning a cannon.
1925 - Margaret Thatcher - "The Iron Lady" She was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain and the most powerful woman of the 20th Century.
1962 - Jerry Rice - San Francisco '49er wide receiver, record holder for most touchdowns, and arguably the best football player of all time.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1775 - The U.S. Navy was born as the second Continental Congress authorized a newly formed marine committee to acquire ships and control naval affairs.
1792 - The cornerstone for the first federal building in Washington, D.C., the White House, was laid. The executive mansion would be first inhabited eight years later by President John Adams.
Happy Birthday
Jeffery
from your friends at
Ketchikan General Hospital.
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