The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 7:08 am
and set at 4:46 pm
Local high: 51° F
Local low: 37° F
The nation's weather extremes were
89° recorded at McAllen and Laredo, Texas
and -33° at Huslia, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
10270.47
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: $2.79
Populations:
Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
U.S. Population: 289,165,379 Skye Kalani shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1873 - Sara Jospeine Baker - American physician who, as creator of the world's first public agency devoted to child health, contributed much to child welfare in the U.S.
1887 - Marianne Moore - American Pulitzer Prize winning poet.
1887 - Marianne Moore - American Pulitzer Prize winning poet.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1777 - The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, a major step toward creating the United States of America.
1867 - The New York Stock Market unveiled the stock Ticker this day, providing investors with a steady stream of timely information about stock prices and sales volumes.
1965 - Craig Breedlove, who had broken the 400 and 500 mph land speed barriers earlier in his career, became the first to surpass 600 mph with a 600.601 mph run on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
1977 - Workers completed a Ford Fairmont 4-door sedan. It was the 100 millionth U.S. built Ford automobile since the assembly lines started turning out Model T's in 1908.
Happy Birthday
Skye
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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