1960 - Cal Ripken, Jr. - The iron-man of baseball. Baltimore Orioles shortstop who holds the record for the most consecutive games played.
1890 - Duke Kahanamoku - Hawaiian swimming legend who won five Olympic medals, including three gold in three Olympics over a 12 year period.
1880 - Joshua Lionel Cowen - American inventor of the electric toy train and founder of the Lionel Company.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1932 - Amelia Earhart left Los Angeles on the first transcontinental nonstop flight by a woman. She landed 19 hours later, 2600 miles away in Newark, New Jersey.
1891 - Thomas Edison received one of his more than 1,000 patents, this one for the motion picture camera.
1814 - British forces captured Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol, White House and other government buildings in revenge for earlier burnings of Canadian government buildings by U.S. troops.
Population:
The Dalles:
11,600
U.S. population:
306,280,979
Sunrise and sunset:
Sunrise:6:17 a.m.
Sunset:7:56 p.m.
Local weather:
The Dalles high:
89° F
The Dalles low:
48° F
The nation's weather extremes:
High:
110° at Ocotillo Wells, California Low: 24 at Seneca, Ore.