The Weather:
The sun rose over Eugene at 7:09 am
and set at 6:52 pm
Local high: 64° F
Local low: 44° F
The nation's weather extremes were
104° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 17° at Bondurant, Wyoming
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
10568.70
Minimum Wage was $7.25
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: $2.88
Hospital Room: $99.99 Populations:
Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
U.S. Population: 297,329,142 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "Flightplan"
Raymond Hayden shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1781 - James Lawrence - U.S. naval Captain during the War of 1812 who gave birth to an American Navy tradition with his famous proclamation, "Don't give up the ship."
1924 - Jimmy Carter - 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was the first President to have been born in a hospital.
1945 - Rod Carew - Major league baseball great who set records for stealing home (7 times in one season) and won the league batting crown seven different seasons.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1890 - Congress authorized the designation of 1512 acres of natural beauty and splendor in central California as Yosemite National Park.
1903 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Pilgrims (now known as the Red Sox) 7 to 3 in the first game of the first ever World Series.
1908 - The Ford Model T was introduced by Henry Ford. Retail price for the automobile was $825 and Ford proclaimed you could have any color you wanted as long it was black.
1971 - Amid parades, balloons, famous mice, ducks and many other characters, Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida.
2000 - Katherine Drexel, founder of an order of religious Sisters and untiring crusader for Indians and blacks was canonized, becoming only the second American born person to be recognized as a Saint by the Catholic Church.
Happy Birthday
Raymond
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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