The Weather:
The sun rose over Longview at 6:29 a.m.
and
set at 7:55 p.m.
Local high:73° F
59° F
The nation's weather extremes were
121° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 26° at Bettles, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at 9,544.20
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: $2.71
Populations:
Longview: 34,360
U.S. Population: 306,300,919
Justin shares
his/her birthday with these other interesting people
1915 - Ingrid Bergman - Beautiful and popular Academy Award-winning actress who achieved immortality playing the female lead in the movie classic, "Casablanca".
1876 - Charles F. Kettering - American engineer and co-founder of Delco. His inventions included the first electric cash register and the electric starter for automobiles, first installed on the 1912 Cadillac.
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes - American physician, poet, and humorist. He was largely responsible for marshaling public opinion for saving America's oldest warship, the USS Constitution, from destruction.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1972 - Amazing American athlete Mark Spitz won the first of his seven Olympic Gold Medals finishing the 200-meter butterfly in a world record two minutes, seven tenths second.
1963 - Civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., stirred a quarter million followers as he delivered his most famous speech, entitled "I Have a Dream", at the Lincoln Memorial.
1907 - Jim Casey and Claude Ryan of Seattle, Washington, started a local delivery service called the American Messenger Company. Today it is known as UPS.
1885 - John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in the first prize fight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules.
Happy Birthday
Justin
from your friends at
St. John Medical Center
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