The Weather:
The sun rose over Bellingham at 5:29 am
and set at 9:03 pm
Local high: 77° F
Local low: 50° F
The nation's weather extremes were
125° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 31° at Stanley, Idaho
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
8848.15
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: $2.75
Populations:
Bellingham: 76,500
U.S. Population: 306,141,399 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
Brenden Aaron shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1836 - Sir Thomas Allbutt - English physician and inventor of the modern clinical thermometer which replaced the foot-long unit that required 20 minutes to record a person's temperature.
1894 - Errett Lobban Cord - American automotive innovator who produced the exceptional Dusenberg cars and the first popular front-wheel drive car, the Cord L-29.
1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary - New Zealand adventurer who, with the Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay, became the first to achieve the summit of the world's highest mount, 29,028 foot Mount Everest.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1841 - Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered to be the first modern detective story, was published.
1942 - A new branch of America's armed forces was initiated as the first member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
1969 - One of history's great adventures culminated as astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon .
1985 - Treasure hunter Mel Fisher began to reap the rewards of years of searching as his team began recovering more than $400 million in coins, jewels, gold and silver from the wreck of the Spanish galleon "Nuestra Senora de la Atocha" off the coast of Key West, Florida in 1622.
Happy Birthday
Brenden
from your friends at
St. Joseph Hospital
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