The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 7:33 am
and set at 6:21 pm
Local high: 64° F
Local low: 45° F
The nation's weather extremes were
103° recorded at Laredo, Texas
and 8° at Northway, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
9995.91
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: $2.81
Populations:
Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
U.S. Population: 289,057,703 Adam Joseph Lee shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1810 - Cassius Marcellus Clay - American politician and newspaper publisher and antislavery leader despite being raised the son of a slaveowner.
1885 - Charles E. Merrill - American financier who guided his company through a series of mergers that resulted in giant stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch.
1931 - John Le Carre - Popular English author of realistic spy novels including "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "The Russia House" and others.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1781 - British General Cornwallis surrendered his army to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the American War of Independence.
1941 - Inventor Palmer Putnam helped shine the light on alternate forms of energy production as his wind turbine to generate electricity was set in motion at Grandpa's Knob, Vermont.
Happy Birthday
Adam
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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