The Weather:
The sun rose over Florence at 5:40 am
and set at 8:48 pm
Local high: 63° F
Local low: 48° F
The nation's weather extremes were
113° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 26° at Shirley Basin, Wyoming
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
8473.49
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: $2.77
Populations:
Florence, Oregon: 6,000
U.S. Population: 288,479,443 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian"
Marius Victor, Joseph shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1837 - Wild Bill Hickok - Famed frontiersman, army scout, gambler and U.S. Marshall; a true legend of the Old West.
1911 - Hubert Humphrey - Democratic politician from Minnesota, 38th Vice President of the United States under Lyndon Johnson and unsuccessful Democratic presidential nominee in 1969.
1915 - Herman Wouk - American author who will long be remembered for his epic novels, including the Pulitzer Prize winning The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, The Hope, The Glory and others.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1930 - Richard Gurley Drew received a patent for "adhesive tape", known better today as transparent cellophane or "Scotch" tape.
1937 - One of the man-made wonders of the world, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, officially opened for traffic.
1986 - A priceless discovery and a treasure hunter's dream, a jar containing some 2,300 emeralds, was recovered from the wreck of the sunken 17th Century Spanish galleon "Atocha".
Happy Birthday
Marius
from your friends at
Peace Harbor Hospital.
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