The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 7:39 am
and set at 6:14 pm
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
9972.18
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: 289,077,643 Penelope Jane shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1788 - Sarah Hale - American journalist and author who penned "Mary had a Little Lamb" in 1830.
1855 - James Sherman - Vice President of the United States in the administration of William Howard Taft.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1861 - The Pony Express suffered a fatal blow with the initiation of the transcontinental telegraph. That first telegram was sent from California Chief Justice Stephen Johnson Field to President Lincoln.
1901 - Adventurer Anna Edson Taylor began a daredevils' tradition when she fell 175 feet over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She did live to tell about it.
1931 - The efforts of Elliot Ness and the "Untouchables" paid off as famed Chicago gangster, Al Capone, was sentenced to serve 11 years in federal prison for income tax evasion.
1945 - The United Nations was formally established with the ratification of the U.N. Charter by the five permanent members of the Security Council and a majority of other participants.
Happy Birthday
Penelope
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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