The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 7:47 am
and set at 4:43 pm
Local high: 52° F
Local low: 36° F
Precipitation: 0.55 inches
The nation's weather extremes were
83° recorded at Cape Canaveral, Florida
and -53° at Circle Hot Springs, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
8483.93
Minimum Wage was $7.95
and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
Loaf of Bread: $2.49
Gallon of Milk: $3.85
Average New Home: $239,000.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline: $1.82
Populations:
Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
U.S. Population: 287,885,231 Corbin Peter shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1800 - Charles Goodyear - American inventor of a process known as vulcanization -treating rubber with heat and sulfur. His process made possible the all the uses of rubber today.
1809 - Andrew Johnson - 17th president of the United States (1865-69), who took office upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and whose administration presided over the early reconstruction of the Union following the Civil War.
1879 - Billy Mitchell - American Air Combat commander during World War I who foresaw the importance of an independent air corps and fought with the Army brass during the 1920"s to accomplish it. Mitchell"s dream became reality on July 26, 1947, long after his death.
1907 - Robert C. Weaver - American government official, educator and author who broke a racial barrier in 1966 becoming the first black person to serve in the United States Cabinet - As Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Lyndon Johnson.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1845 - Texas became the 28th state admitted to the Union.
1851 - Seven years after originating in London, the Young Men's Christian Association found its way to American shores where a YMCA was organized in Boston, Massachusetts.
1963 - The musical revolution known as "The British Invasion" began this day as WMCA became the first American radio station to play the Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
Happy Birthday
Corbin
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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