The Weather:
The sun rose over Longview at 7:19 a.m.
and
set at 4:35 p.m.
Local high:57° F
46° F
The nation's weather extremes were
86° recorded at Miami, Fla., and Indio, California
and -46° at Bettles, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at 10,426.31
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: $2.70
Populations:
Longview: 34,360
U.S. Population: 306,627,935
Logan Jeter shares
his/her birthday with these other interesting people
1966 - Gail Devers - American track athlete who triumphed over grave medical problems to win the Olympic gold medal for the 100 meter dash in 1992.
1831 - James Garfield - Twentieth President of the United States.
1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps - French visionary and organizer who built the Suez Canal and was in charge of the initial French project to build the Panama Canal.
1770 - Adam Krusentern - First Russian naval officer to explore the Pacific Ocean and circumnavigate the globe on a three year expedition beginning in 1803.
1752 - George Rogers Clark - American Revolutionary War hero whose campaigns on the western frontiers did much to secure victory for the American Colonies.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1961 - A 37 pound chimpanzee named Enos blasted off from Cape Canaveral, orbited the earth twice and landed near Puerto Rico becoming the first animal to orbit the earth and return to tell about it.
1959 - One of biggest marketing blunders in history came to an end as the last Ford Motor Company Edsel rolled off the assembly line. The Edsel has since become a valuable collector's item.
1916 - Pilot Ruth Law set an early flight endurance record by becoming the first to fly an airplane more than 500 miles non-stop.
1863 - With the words "Four score and seven years ago," Abraham Lincoln began one of the great speeches of all-time, "The Gettysburg Address," in dedication of the Civil War military cemetery in Pennsylvannia.
Happy Birthday
Logan Jeter
from your friends at
St. John Medical Center
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