This day in history

Population:

Ashland: 20,600

U.S. population: 306,432,523

Sunrise and sunset:

7:09 a.m.

6:52 p.m.

Local weather:

Ashland high: 71° F

Ashland low: 37° F

The nation's weather extremes:

High: ° at

Low: at

The day's Dow Jones close:

9,712.28

Your dollar's worth

Loaf of bread: $2.49

Gallon of milk: $3.85

Gallon of gasoline: $3.09

First-class stamp: $0.44

New car: $21,750.00

Average new home: $336,000.00

Other interesting people born on this date:

1945 - Rod Carew - Major league baseball great who set records for stealing home (7 times in one season) and won the league batting crown seven different seasons.

1924 - Jimmy Carter - 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was the first President to have been born in a hospital.

1781 - James Lawrence - U.S. naval Captain during the War of 1812 who gave birth to an American Navy tradition with his famous proclamation, "Don't give up the ship."

Other notable events
on this day in history:

2000 - Katherine Drexel, founder of an order of religious Sisters and untiring crusader for Indians and blacks was canonized, becoming only the second American born person to be recognized as a Saint by the Catholic Church.

1971 - Amid parades, balloons, famous mice, ducks and many other characters, Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida.

1908 - The Ford Model T was introduced by Henry Ford. Retail price for the automobile was $825 and Ford proclaimed you could have any color you wanted as long it was black.

1903 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Pilgrims (now known as the Red Sox) 7 to 3 in the first game of the first ever World Series.

1890 - Congress authorized the designation of 1512 acres of natural beauty and splendor in central California as Yosemite National Park.