The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 7:42 am
and set at 6:11 pm
Local high: 59° F
Local low: 44° F
Precipitation: 0.39 inches
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
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: $2.78
Populations:
Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
U.S. Population: 289,085,619 Aaron S. shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1786 - Henry Deringer - American inventor a firearms manufacturer known for the tiny deringer pistol fancied by professional gamblers in the Old West.
1854 - Charles Post - American food processing entrepreneur and innovator who founded the giant Post cereal company and invented "Grape Nuts."
1946 - Hillary Rodham Clinton - Attorney, political activist and First Lady of the United States and wife of 42nd U.S. President Bill Clinton.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1774 - The legendary citizen fighting force known as "The Minute Men" was organized in America. Six months later they would see the first action of the American War of Independence at Concord.
1825 - The economic influence of mid-America was greatly enhanced with the opening of the 350 mile long Erie Canal that connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River.
1858 - Inventor Hamilton Erastus Smith received a patent for a hand-cranked, rotary motion washing machine, a huge improvement over the tub and washboard method used previously.
1881 - Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan and Doc Holliday stepped into Western folklore as they routed the Clanton gang at the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral."
Happy Birthday
Aaron
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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