The Weather:
The sun rose over Bellingham at 5:51 am
and set at 8:24 pm
Local high: 63° F
Local low: 44° F
The nation's weather extremes were
100° recorded at Pecos, Texas
and 14° at Burgess Junction, Wyoming
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
8185.73
Minimum Wage was $8.55
and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
Loaf of Bread: $2.49
Gallon of Milk: $3.85
Average New Home: $252,100.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline: $2.33
Populations:
Bellingham: 76,500
U.S. Population: 305,818,371 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "Obsessed"
Kaitlyn Michelle - right shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss - German thinker whose contributions to mathematics rank him as one of the world's greatest mathematicians.
1933 - Willie Nelson - Grammy Award-winning musician, actor and author of scores of famous songs including "Georgia on My Mind" and "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain."
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1789 - Nine days after John Adams took office as the first U.S. Vice President, George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States.
1803 - In one of the biggest real estate deals of all time, the United States purchased the 828,000 square mile Louisiana Territory from France for less than three cents per acre.
1812 - Louisiana became the 18th state admitted to the Union.
1900 - Hawaii became a territory of the United States.
Happy Birthday
Kaitlyn
from your friends at
St. Joseph Hospital
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