The Weather:
The sun rose over Bellingham at 5:52 am
and set at 8:38 pm
Local high: 64° F
Local low: 57° F
The nation's weather extremes were
106° recorded at Laredo, Texas
and 29° at Charleston, Nev.
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
9256.26
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: $2.76
Populations:
Bellingham: 76,500
U.S. Population: 306,213,183 Blake Cillian shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1860 - Grandma Moses - American artist who, at the age of 78, took up painting and became popular world-wide for her depictions of 19th and 20th Century rural American life.
1876 - Mata Hari - French dancer, courtesan and double agent for France and Germany whose name has become the symbol of the seductress spy.
1903 - Louis Leakey - Archaeologist and anthropologist whose fossil discoveries proved that man was far older than had previously been believed and that human evolution was centered in Africa.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1782 - By order of General George Washington, the Military Order of the Purple Heart honoring those wounded in combat, was founded.
1959 - U.S. satellite, Explorer 6, transmitted the first photos of the Earth from space.
1974 - To the amazement of thousands of onlookers, French stuntman Philippe Petit crossed between the two towers of New York's World Trade Center on a tightrope, some 1350 feet above the streets below.
Happy Birthday
Blake
from your friends at
St. Joseph Hospital
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