The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 5:53 am
and set at 8:44 pm
Local high: 93° F
Local low: 54° F
The nation's weather extremes were
119° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 34° at Eagle, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
9093.24
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: $2.70
Populations:
Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
U.S. Population: 288,714,735 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
Meliya Kay shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1750 - Henry Knox - Patriot, General during the Revolutionary War, the first Secretary of War under George Washington and individual for whom the U.S. gold depository, Fort Knox, is named.
1954 - Walter Payton - Hall of Fame running back who held individual National Football League records for yards rushed in a single game (275), yards rushed in a career (16,726) and touchdowns scored (110).
1979 - Louise Brown - Baby who made history simply by presenting herself as a healthy, happy baby in the delivery room. She was the first baby conceived outside the mother's body.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was elevated to General of the U.S. Army on this day becoming the first American officer to reach that rank.
1909 - Pilot Louis Bleriot of France became the first to fly a heavier-than-air aircraft over open water as he flew a 28 horsepower monoplane across the English Channel.
1918 - Annette Abbott Adams took over as U.S. District Attorney in Northern California, becoming the first woman to hold the federal district attorney position.
1984 - Soviet Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya left her space capsule becoming the first woman to walk in space.
Happy Birthday
Meliya
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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