The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 5:31 am
and set at 9:00 pm
Local high: 84° F
Local low: 45° F
The nation's weather extremes were
120° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 27° at Barrow, Alaska, and Stanley, Idaho
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
8438.39
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: $239,000.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline: $2.85
Populations:
Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
U.S. Population: 288,603,071 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "The Proposal"
Katiry Marie shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1880 - Helen Keller - American author and educator who overcame deafness and blindness to achieve many great things. Her story is chronicled in the play and movie "The Miracle Worker."
1913 - Willie Mosconi - One of the greatest pool players of all-time, Mosconi won the men's world championship 15 times between 1941 and 1957.
1927 - Bob Keeshan - Hosted the longest running network children's show for more than 25 years as "Captain Kangaroo."
1930 - H. Ross Perot - American billionaire and political agitator who twice ran for President and attempted to start a third major party during the 1990's.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1652 - New Amsterdam (later New York City) became the first government in the New World to enact a traffic law, this one regulating the movement of wagons, carts and sleighs within the city limits.
1923 - Army Air Corps pilots made the first successful mid-air fueling between airplanes in the skies over Coronado, California.
1929 - Bell Telephone Labs presented the first public demonstration of color television, displaying images of the American flag, roses and a watermelon.
1980 - New Jersey became the first state to graduate women from its State Police Academy. The 30 women graduates all went on to become New Jersey State Police Officers.
Happy Birthday
Katiry
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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