The Weather:
The sun rose over Longview at 6:52 a.m.
and
set at 5:57 p.m.
Local high:51° F
26° F
The nation's weather extremes were
89° recorded at Santa Ana, California
and -33° at Embarrass, Minnesota
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at 7,063.00
and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
Loaf of Bread: $2.49
Gallon of Milk: $3.85
Average New Home: $155,000.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline: $2.07
Populations:
Longview: 34,360
U.S. Population: 305,575,103
In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "Madea Goes to Jail"
Blaize Dennis shares
his/her birthday with these other interesting people
1940 - Mario Andretti - Perennial favorite racecar driver, Indianapolis 500 winner and Formula I World Champion during his career.
1915 - Peter Brian Medewar - Nobel Prize winning zoologist for the discovery of acquired immunological intolerance.
1901 - Linus Pauling - American scientist and winner of two Nobel prizes; the first for chemistry in 1954 and second a peace prize in 1962.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1983 - The final episode of the TV show "M*A*S*H" became the most watched television program in history with an estimated 125 million people in the U.S. tuned in.
1854 - The Republican Party was formed at Ripon, Wisconsin. Only six years later the Republicans would elect their first President, Abe Lincoln.
1849 - The first regular steamboat service to California from the East Coast arrived in San Francisco completing the trip around Cape Horn in four months, 21 days.
1827 - America's first railroad for the commercial transportation of people and freight, the B&O (Baltimore & Ohio), incorporated on this date.
Happy Birthday
Blaize Dennis
from your friends at
St. John Medical Center
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