The Weather:
The sun rose over Florence at 7:05 am
and set at 7:11 pm
Local high: 63° F
Local low: 48° F
The nation's weather extremes were
118° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 30° at Eagle, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
9829.87
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: 288,954,015 Alasha Roseanna shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1745 - John Sevier - American Revolutionary War hero, frontiersman, U.S. Congressman and the first Governor of the short-lived state of Franklin and later of the state of Tennessee.
1861 - Robert Bosch - German engineer who invented, among other things, two devices necessary for the development of the automobile - the magneto and the sparkplug.
1889 - Walter Lippmann - American newspaperman who became one of the most respected political columnists in the world and won Pulitzer Prizes in 1958 and 1962 for his work.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1845 - Alexander Joe Cartwright organized the first modern baseball team, the Knickerbocker Club of New York. They had to wait until June of 1846 before another team was available to play and then lost to their opponents 23 to 1.
Happy Birthday
Alasha
from your friends at
Peace Harbor Hospital.
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