The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 6:59 am
and set at 7:11 pm
Local high: 88° F
Local low: 40° 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
9820.20
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: $2.92
Populations:
Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
U.S. Population: 288,946,039 Zackari Zane shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1866 - H. G. Wells - English novelist, journalist and historian. He is best known for his science fiction classics, "The Time Machine" and "The War of the Worlds".
1912 - Chuck Jones - Cartoonist and animation director for Warner Brothers who created some of the best cartoon characters of the 20th century, including, "The Road Runner"," Pepe Le Pew" and "Wiley Coyote".
1947 - Stephen King - 20th Century master of the macabre. One of the most popular and prolific authors of his time who wrote dozens of horror novels, stories and screenplays.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1784 - Issue number one of "The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser" was published in Philadelphia, it was the first daily paper in America.
1965 - Thirty-seven year old Ted Erikson of Chicago became the first American to swim the English Channel roundtrip, completing the feat in a total of 30 hours and 3 minutes.
1981 - By a 99 to 0 vote the Senate confirmed Ronald Reagan's appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court. She was the first woman to attain that position.
Happy Birthday
Zackari
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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