The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 7:15 am
and set at 6:45 pm
Local high: 76° F
Local low: 49° F
The nation's weather extremes were
103° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 15° at Tanana, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
10177.68
Minimum Wage was $7.05
and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
Loaf of Bread: $1.52
Gallon of Milk: $2.89
Average New Home: $230,000.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline: $2.06
Populations:
Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
U.S. Population: 281,719,783 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "Shark Tale"
Geronimo Jackson shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1830 - Chester A. Arthur - Twenty-first President of the United States from 1881-1885.
1882 - Robert Goddard - American Physicist and the "Father of Modern Rocketry" who achieved the first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.
1902 - Ray Kroc - American entrepreneur who built the McDonald's fast food empire.
1929 - Richard Gordon, Jr. - American astronaut who piloted the Command Module during Apollo 12, the second flight to land humans on the moon.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1947 - President Harry Truman became the first President to address the nation via television, asking citizens to help the starving in Euorope by abstaining from eating meat and poultry one day a week.
1953 - The New York Yankees clinched the World Series becoming the first baseball team to ever win five consecutive World Championships.
1970 - David Kunst completed a 14,450 mile walk across four continents that encircled the globe. It was the first verified walk around the world.
Happy Birthday
Geronimo
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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