The Weather:
The sun rose over Florence at 5:51 am
and set at 8:35 pm
Local high: 55° F
Local low: 48° F
Precipitation: 0.05 inches
The nation's weather extremes were
106° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 9° at Galbraith Lake, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
8331.32
Minimum Wage was $8.40
and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
Loaf of Bread: $2.49
Gallon of Milk: $3.85
Average New Home: $192,000.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline: $3.00
Populations:
Florence, Oregon: 6,000
U.S. Population: 288,427,599 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "Star Trek"
Adriana Danyelle shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1686 - Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit - German physicist best known for inventing mercury thermometers and the Fahrenheit temperature scale to use with them.
1944 - George Lucas - Innovative movie maker who developed some of the most successful films ever, including "American Graffiti", the "Star Wars" movies and the Indiana Jones trilogy.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1804 - Captains Merriwether Lewis and William Clark and some 40 members of their party, departed St. Louis, Missouri, on a two-year round trip expedition that led them to the Pacific Ocean and into history books.
1904 - The Olympic Games came to the United States for the first time. St. Louis, Missouri, hosted the 14-event competition.
1913 - John D. Rockefeller established the Rockefeller Foundation with a one hundred million dollar endowment, the largest charitable gift of its kind to that time.
1948 - The nation of Israel was born on this date.
Happy Birthday
Adriana
from your friends at
Peace Harbor Hospital.
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