The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 5:37 am
and set at 8:57 pm
Local high: 85° F
Local low: 47° F
The nation's weather extremes were
114° recorded at Bullhead City, Arizona
and 30° at Truckee, California
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
9216.79
Minimum Wage was $6.90
and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
Loaf of Bread: $1.59
Gallon of Milk: $2.89
Average New Home: $165,000.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline: $1.59
Populations:
Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
U.S. Population: 279,901,255 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "Terminator 3"
Katherine Jeannine shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1861 - Nettie Stevens - American scientist who was one of the first to discover that a baby's gender is determined by the X or Y chromosome.
1906 - Satchel Paige - Legendary Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher who was among the first black athletes to move from the Negro leagues to the major leagues.
1940 - Ringo Starr - Enduringly popular drummer of history's most successful Rock and Roll band, The Beatles.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1802 - America's first comic book, "The Wasp", was published in Hudson, New York.
1849 - New Hampshire became the first "free library" state as the legislature passed a bill authorizing cities, town and school districts to develop free libraries for use by all of the area's residents.
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, was canonized by the Catholic Church, becoming the first American citizen to be honored as a Saint.
1980 - Piloted by Stephen Ptacek, the 210-pound "Solar Challenger" became the first solar-powered airplane to fly across the English Channel.
Happy Birthday
Katherine
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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