The Weather:
The sun rose over Bellingham at 6:08 am
and set at 6:26 pm
Local high: 53° F
Local low: 46° F
The nation's weather extremes were
90° recorded at Miami, Florida
and -26° at Nuiqsut, Alaska
In the financial world
the Dow Jones closed at
11317.43
Minimum Wage was $7.63
and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
Loaf of Bread: $1.89
Gallon of Milk: $2.89
Average New Home: $174,800.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline: $2.49
Populations:
Bellingham: 72,000
U.S. Population: 298,304,930 In the world of entertainment this week
The top grossing movie was: "V for Vendetta"
Benjamin Marinus shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
1891 - Chico Marx - Member of the Marx Brothers team who starred in a number of full-length comedy feature films including "Animal Crackers", "A Day at the Races" and "Duck Soup."
1908 - Louis L'Amour - American best-selling author of more than 100 books, mostly old west adventures.
1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber - English composer whose works include musicals "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Evita", "Cats" and others.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1765 - The fires of revolution were ignited as the English Parliament passed the Stamp Act, its first direct tax on the American colonists.
1806 - The Lewis and Clark expedition broke their winter encampment at Fort Clatsop near the Pacific Ocean and began their long journey home.
1861 - The School of Nursing at the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia became the first nursing school to be chartered in the United States.
1960 - Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes received the first patent for lasers.
1981 - U.S. Postage rates increased from 15-cents to 18-cents an ounce.
Happy Birthday
Benjamin
from your friends at
St. Joseph Hospital
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