The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 6:55 am
and set at 4:57 pm
Local high: 61° F
Local low: 37° F
Precipitation: 0.38 inches
The nation's weather extremes were
93° recorded at Mesa, Ariz.
and -15° at Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
9802.14
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: $2.80
Populations:
Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
U.S. Population: 289,125,499 Lauren shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1818 - Benjamin F. Butler - Governor of Massachusetts, Union General during the Civil War, and Presidential candidate who supported the 8-hour work day and anti-monopoly legislation.
1893 - Raymond Loewy - American engineer responsible for much of the streamline packaging of a wide array of products including busses, automobiles, toothbrushes, ball-point pens, and the Coca-Cola bottle.
1912 - Roy Rogers - American actor and "King of the Cowboys" who starred in some 85 western movies and two popular TV series.
1942 - Paul Simon - American popular music icon whose career yielded a tremendous number of hit songs from "Bridge Over Troubled Water" to "Graceland."
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1492 - Christopher Columbus recorded that he learned of a new food, corn, from the Indians of Cuba.
1872 - Women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony led a group of women to the polls in Rochester, New York, to test the right of women to vote. Though arrested and fined, her actions would lead to the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
1895 - Sixteen years after applying for a patent, George B. Selden was granted patent #549,160, recognizing him as "inventor" of the automobile.
1935 - Parker Brothers introduced what would become the most enduringly popular board game in history, "Monopoly."
Happy Birthday
Lauren
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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