How things were way back when Bailey was born.

February 4, 2006
-A day to remember

The Weather

• The sun rose over Eugene at 7:26am and set at 5:27 pm
• Local high: 49° F
• Local low: 34° F
• The nation's weather extremes were
• High: 83° in Kona, Hawaii
• Low: -55° in Barrow, Alaska

In the Financial World

• The Dow Jones closed at 10793.62
• Minimum Wage was $7.50

Some of the big and little ticket items were...

• Loaf of bread: $1.89
• Gallon of Milk: $2.89
• Average New Home: $230,000
• New Car: $21,750
• Gallon of Gas: $2.22
• Hospital Room: $500

Populations:

• Eugene/Springfield: 185,160
• U.S. Population: 283,661,939

In the World of Entertainment this Week:

• The top grossing movie was: "Big Momma's House 2"

Bailey shares her birthday with:

• 1902 - Charles Lindbergh - American aviator and hero; the first person to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1904 - MacKinley Kantor - American author and journalist who recieved a Pulitzer Prize for his 1956 novel about the Civil War prisoner of war camp Andersonville.
• 1947 - Dan Quayle - U.S. Senetor from Indiana and Vice President of the United States in the administration of George Bush Sr.

Other Notable Event in History on this Day:

• 1789 - George Washington was unanimously elected President of the United Staes by the Electoral College.
• 1913 - Louis Perlman of New York City recieved a patent for the "demountable tire-carrying rims", better known today as automobile wheels.
• 1932 - New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt officially opened the first Winter Olymics at Lake Placid, New York.
• 1962 - St. Judes, the first hospital dedicated to the reseatch and treatment of catastrophic childhood deseases, was opened in Memphis, Tennessee.