The Weather:
The sun rose over Florence at 5:41 am
and set at 8:46 pm
Local high: 63° F
Local low: 44° F
The nation's weather extremes were
105° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 21° at Kuparuk, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
8277.32
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: 288,471,467 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian"
Mark shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Prominent American essayist, lecturer and poet of the 19th century and the leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism.
1886 - Philip Murray - American labor leader who organized the United Steelworkers of American and was a prominent founding member and second president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
1889 - Igor Sikorsky - American aeronautical engineer and inventor who developed the first successful helicopter.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1927 - Henry Ford announced that the Model T would be discontinued in favor of the newer Model A Ford. Produced since 1908, the Model T was the most successful automobile ever marketed.
1935 - Babe Ruth hit the last of his record setting career home runs, numbers 713 and 714 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Happy Birthday
Mark
from your friends at
Peace Harbor Hospital.
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