This day in history

Population:

Ashland: 20,600

U.S. population: 306,408,595

Sunrise and sunset:

7:02 a.m.

7:03 p.m.

Local weather:

Ashland high: 89° F

Ashland low: 51° F

The nation's weather extremes:

High: 118° at Death Valley, California

Low: 30 at Eagle, Alaska

The day's Dow Jones close:

9,707.44

Your dollar's worth

Loaf of bread: $2.49

Gallon of milk: $3.85

Gallon of gasoline: $3.10

First-class stamp: $0.44

New car: $21,750.00

Average new home: $336,000.00

Other interesting people born on this date:

1952 - Christopher Reeve - Popular American actor who brought Superman to the big screen and became a full-time advocate for handicapped people, following his own unfortunate accident.

1897 - William Faulkner - Nobel Prize winning author who many include on the list of great 20th Century writers for novels such as "The Sound and the Fury", "As I Lay Dying" and others.

1764 - Fletcher Christian - British sailor and the leader of the most famous mutiny in history, the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty.

1725 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot - French engineer and designer of the first true automobile, a steam-powered tricycle.

Other notable events
on this day in history:

1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first woman Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1960 - Presidential election campaigns changed forever as Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy debated on live TV before an audience of some 69 million people. Kennedy won the debate and the election.

1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa became the first European to view the Pacific Ocean from the Americas, doing so from a peak in the Darien rain forest in what is now Panama.