The Weather:
The sun rose over Bellingham at 6:30 am
and set at 7:47 pm
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
9280.67
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: $2.92
Populations:
Bellingham: 76,500
U.S. Population: 306,320,859 Jackson Bradley shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche - Austrian automobile designer responsible for the first Volkswagen, as well as many classic sports cars.
1923 - Mort Walker - American cartoonist who created two very popular, long-running newspaper comic stripsm "Beetle Bailey" and "Hi and Lois".
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1189 - Famed British Royal, Richard the Lionheart, was coronated King of England at Westminster Abbey in London.
1777 - The American flag was flown in battle for the first time, this during a Revolutionary War skirmish at Cooch's Bridge, Maryland.
1888 - George Eastman of Rochester, New York, received a patent for the first camera to use rolled film, a fixed focus box camera called the "Kodak No. 1."
1935 - British speed king, Sir Malcolm Campbell, set a new land speed record, completing two one-mile runs at the Bonneville salt flats with an average speed of 301 miles per hour.
Happy Birthday
Jackson
from your friends at
St. Joseph Hospital
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