The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 7:38 am
and set at 6:15 pm
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
10081.31
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: 289,073,655 Ava Grace shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1835 - Adlai Ewing Stevenson - Vice President of the United States in the administration of Grover Cleveland.
1869 - John Heisman - football coach and innovator credited with legalizing the forward pass. The trophy awarded annually the to the best collegiate player is named for him.
1906 - Gertrude Ederle - American Olympic gold medalist and the first woman to successfully swim across the English Channel.
1942 - Michael Crichton - American author whose books translated into some of the biggest movies of all time including "Jurassic Park", "Twister", "Rising Sun" and others.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1855 - Kansas became the only state to have two governments as anti-slavery forces swore in a governor and legislature in competition to the fraudulently elected pro-slavery group.
1885 - Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania opened its doors becoming the first college in the United States to offer graduate level courses for women.
1962 - Following the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, the United States quarantined the Island nation to prevent a buildup of offensive weapons. So began the "Cuban Missile Crisis."
Happy Birthday
Ava
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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