The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 7:40 am
and set at 6:12 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: 289,081,631 Leona Marie shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1825 - Johann Strauss - Austrian composer known as "The Waltz King" for compositions such as "The Blue Danube", "Emperor Waltz" and many more.
1881 - Pablo Picasso - Famed Spanish artist who created the artistic genre of cubism and who was the major contributor to the development of modern art during the 20th century.
1888 - Richard Byrd - American Navy officer and pioneer aviator best known for his explorations of Antarctica using airplanes.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1940 - Benjamin Oliver Davis put on the stars of a brigadier general becoming the first American of African ancestry to achieve the rank of general in the U.S. Army.
1960 - The Accutron, the world's first electronic watch, was unveiled by the Bulova Watch Company this day.
Happy Birthday
Leona
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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