The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 7:03 am
and set at 7:04 pm
Local high: 76° F
Local low: 46° 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
9665.19
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: 288,961,991 Gavin Alexander shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1725 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot - French engineer and designer of the first true automobile, a steam-powered tricycle.
1764 - Fletcher Christian - British sailor and the leader of the most famous mutiny in history, the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty.
1897 - William Faulkner - Nobel Prize winning author who many include on the list of great 20th Century writers for novels such as "The Sound and the Fury", "As I Lay Dying" and others.
1952 - Christopher Reeve - Popular American actor who brought Superman to the big screen and became a full-time advocate for handicapped people, following his own unfortunate accident.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa became the first European to view the Pacific Ocean from the Americas, doing so from a peak in the Darien rain forest in what is now Panama.
1960 - Presidential election campaigns changed forever as Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy debated on live TV before an audience of some 69 million people. Kennedy won the debate and the election.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first woman Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Happy Birthday
Gavin
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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