The Weather:
The sun rose over Florence at 6:33 am
and set at 8:02 pm
Local high: 70° F
Local low: 46° F
The nation's weather extremes were
115° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 25° at Chandalar Lake, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
9539.29
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: 288,842,351 Rowyn Paige shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1873 - Lee De Forest - Iowa inventor and holder of hundreds of patents. He is most noted for cration of the Audion vacuum tube, the key to making radio reception possible.
1906 - Albert Sabin - Polish/American physician and medical scientist. He developed the first oral polio vaccine which protected millions of children world-wide from the horrific disease.
1935 - Geraldine Ferraro - American political leader and the first woman to be nominated for the Vice-Presidency by a major political party.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1873 - The St. Louis school board authorized the creation of America's first public kindergarten.
1883 - History's greatest recorded natural fireworks display, the volcanic explosion of Krakatoa, occurred. The blast, heard some 3,000 miles away, spewed five cubic miles of debris into the air, fifty miles high and created tidal waves up to 120 feet high.
1957 - Ford Motor Company rolled out its first Edsel. It was the wrong car for the wrong time and became the butt of jokes for many years. Today they are considered rare collectors items.
Happy Birthday
Rowyn
from your friends at
Peace Harbor Hospital.
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