The Weather:
The sun rose over Bellingham at 5:19 am
and set at 9:11 pm
Local high: 82° F
Local low: 50° F
The nation's weather extremes were
120° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 36° at Stanley, Idaho, and West Yellowstone, Mont.
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
8146.52
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: $2.87
Populations:
Bellingham: 76,500
U.S. Population: 306,105,507 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"
Erica Jade shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
1767 - John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the United States and son of the nation's second President.
1911 - John Wheeler - American Physicist who was the first American to be involved with the development of the theory of the atom bomb.
1920 - Yul Brynner - American actor who received both Tony and Academy Awards for his role as the Siamese king in "The King and I."
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1798 - U. S. Congress created the Marine Corps.
1804 - America's most famous duel, that between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, resulted in the death of Hamilton.
1914 - Legendary baseball player Babe Ruth began his Major League career at an annual salary of $2,900.
1934 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt traveled through the Panama Canal, the first U.S. President to do so.
1955 - The US Air Force Academy opened in temporary quarters at Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado.
1962 - Soviet Cosmonaut Micolaev set a record for manned flight in space, four days.
Happy Birthday
Erica
from your friends at
St. Joseph Hospital
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