The Weather:
The sun rose over Bellingham at 7:05 am
and set at 4:41 pm
Local high: 50° F
Local low: 46° F
Precipitation: 0.28 inches
The nation's weather extremes were
91° recorded at Canadian, Texas
and -10° at Anaktuvuk Pass and Bettles, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
10005.96
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: $2.82
Populations:
Bellingham: 76,500
U.S. Population: 306,576,091 Kai Baker shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1851 - Charles Henry Dow - American journalist and inventor who developed the system of stock market analysis that has become the Dow Jones stock averages.
1854 - John Philip Sousa - American composer known as "The March King" for military marches "Stars and Stripes Forever", "Semper Fidelis", and many others.
1861 - James Naismith - Canadian-American physical-education director who, in 1891, invented the game of basketball.
1892 - John William Alcock - British aviator, who with Arthur Brown, made the first nonstop transatlantic flight in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh's famous solo flight.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th President of the United States.
1928 - Jacob Schick received a patent for the first electric razor.
Happy Birthday
Kai
from your friends at
St. Joseph Hospital
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