The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 7:45 am
and set at 6:06 pm
Local high: 54° F
Local low: 44° F
Precipitation: 0.12 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
9762.69
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: 289,097,583 Claire Evelyn shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1815 - Daniel Emmett - American music troupe leader and composer known for the song "Dixie" which was the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy and the South.
1891 - Fanny Brice - American actress and comedienne famous for her starring roles in the Ziegfeld Follies and as inspiration for the movie "Funny Girl."
1921 - Bill Mauldin - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who brought the lives of soldiers in World War II into focus with his characters GI Joe and Willie.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1796 - Captain Ebenezer Dorr recorded in the log of the ship Otter, that he had arrived off the coast of California, becoming the first American ship to sail there.
1863 - The International Red Cross was founded in Geneva, Switzerland.
Happy Birthday
Claire
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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