The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 7:37 am
and set at 4:34 pm
Local high: 54° F
Local low: 47° F
The nation's weather extremes were
83° recorded at Kalaeloa, Hawaii
and -20° at Fort Yukon, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
12307.49
Minimum Wage was $7.50
and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
Loaf of Bread: $1.89
Gallon of Milk: $2.89
Average New Home: $230,000.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline: $2.91
Populations:
Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
U.S. Population: 299,724,440 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "Apocalypto"
Rowan Fae shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1843 - Robert Koch - German scientist whose research that isolated the causes of tuberculosis and cholera resulted in treatments that saved millions of lives.
1889 - Walter Knott - Founder, with wife Cordelia of Southern California's Knott's Berry Farm, one of the first major theme parks in the U.S.
1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Russian novelist who shed light on the Soviet labor camps in his book "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich."
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1816 - Indiana became the 19th state admitted to the Union.
1936 - King Edward VIII performed an incredibly romantic act, abdicated the throne to the British Empire in order to marry the woman he loved.
1946 - One of the world's good works was established, the United Nations International Children's Fund was established to improve the health, nutrition and education of children worldwide.
Happy Birthday
Rowan
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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