The Weather:
The sun rose over Florence at 6:07 am
and set at 8:37 pm
Local high: 66° F
Local low: 55° F
The nation's weather extremes were
116° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 30° at Gulkana, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
9171.61
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: 288,750,627 Blake J. shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1900 - John T. Scopes - Tennessee teacher who was convicted of teaching the theory of evolution in a high school in one of the most publicized trials of the 20th Century.
1900 - Ernie Pyle - Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent whose reports of World War II action from both European and Pacific Theaters provided most Americans their closest link to the war.
1924 - Leon Uris - American author who captured much of the Jewish peoples fight for survival in his best selling novels Exodus, QBVII and Trinity.
1926 - Tony Bennett - Grammy Award winning singer whose 50 year entertainment career is most closely identified with the song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1492 - Christopher Columbus and his small fleet of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria left Spain in search of a western passage to the "Indies" that resulted in the European discovery of the Americas.
1923 - Vice President Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as 30th President of the United States.
1933 - The first Mickey Mouse watches became available on the market selling for $2.75.
1949 - The National Basketball League and America Basketball League merged to create the NBA (National Basketball Association).
Happy Birthday
Blake
from your friends at
Peace Harbor Hospital.
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