The Weather:
The sun rose over Bellingham at 6:17 am
and set at 8:05 pm
Local high: 66° F
Local low: 48° F
The nation's weather extremes were
108° recorded at Imperial, California
and 27° at Nikolai, Alaska, and Polebridge, Mont.
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
9509.28
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: $2.89
Populations:
Bellingham: 76,500
U.S. Population: 306,284,967 Filiberto shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1819 - Allan Pinkerton - Founder of the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency and the man who headed Union efforts to gather information on the South during the Civil War.
1918 - Leonard Bernstein - American musician and conductor who composed many and varied musical scores.
1930 - Sean Connery - Enormously popular actor who brought British secret agent James Bond to life in a number of 007 films. He also starred in a wide array of other successful movies.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1875 - Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel doing so in a time of 21 hours, 45 minutes. Nobody else would successfully accomplish the feat for another 35 years.
1916 - The U.S. National Park Service was created to conserve the scenery, natural and historic objects and the wild life of the National Parks and to preserve them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
1920 - Ethelda Bleibtrey won the 100 meter freestyle swimming competition at the 1920 Olympics becoming the first American woman to bring home a Gold Medal.
Happy Birthday
Filiberto
from your friends at
St. Joseph Hospital
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