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The Weather
 The sun rose over
Bellingham at 6:28 am and set at 7:55 pm
Local high: 59° F
Local low: 43° F
The nation's weather extremes were
96° recorded at Thermal, California and -21° at Nuiqsut, Alaska
In the
financial world
the Dow Jones
closed at 11186.56
Minimum Wage was
$6.50
and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
Loaf of Bread:
$1.49
Gallon of Milk: $2.89
Average New Home:
$135,000.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline:
$1.66
Hospital Room: $500.00
Populations:
Bellingham: 52,179
U.S. Population:
274,630,009 In the world of entertainment this week
The top
grossing movie was: "Rules of Engagement"
And the
highest rated TV show was: "E.R." - NBC Elsa Rose
shares her birthday with these other interesting people
1829 - William Booth - Founder and first General of
the Salvation Army.
1847 - Joseph Pulitzer
- Newspaper publisher and among the most influential journalists
of his time. He endowed the Columbia University School of
Journalism and created the annual Pulitzer Prizes.
1880 -
Frances Perkins - American government official and the first
woman to hold a cabinet level post as Secretary of Labor from
1933 - 1945.
There have been some other notable events on this day in
history
1849 - Walter Hunt of New York City received a patent
for his invention of the safety pin.
1866 - The American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was
incorporated.
1872 - Arbor Day, conceived by Nebraska Governor
Julius Sterling Morton to encourage the planting of trees, was
celebrated for the first time on this date.
1912 - The British
luxury liner Titanic set sail on its maiden, and only, voyage
from Southampton, England.
Happy
Birthday Elsa
from your friends at
St. Joseph Hospital
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