This day in history

Population:

Ashland: 20,600

U.S. population: 306,480,379

Sunrise and sunset:

7:22 a.m.

6:32 p.m.

Local weather:

Ashland high: 64° F

Ashland low: 48° F

The nation's weather extremes:

High: 96° at Edinburg and McAllen, Texas

Low: 13 at Hibbing, Minn.

The day's Dow Jones close:

9,885.80

Your dollar's worth

Loaf of bread: $2.49

Gallon of milk: $3.85

Gallon of gasoline: $3.04

First-class stamp: $0.44

New car: $21,750.00

Average new home: $336,000.00

Other interesting people born on this date:

1962 - Jerry Rice - San Francisco '49er wide receiver, record holder for most touchdowns, and arguably the best football player of all time.

1925 - Margaret Thatcher - "The Iron Lady" She was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain and the most powerful woman of the 20th Century.

1754 - Molly Pitcher - An American Revolutionary War hero, honored for bravery at the battle of Monmouth where she carried water to injured colonial fighters and replaced her exhausted husband manning a cannon.

Other notable events
on this day in history:

1792 - The cornerstone for the first federal building in Washington, D.C., the White House, was laid. The executive mansion would be first inhabited eight years later by President John Adams.

1775 - The U.S. Navy was born as the second Continental Congress authorized a newly formed marine committee to acquire ships and control naval affairs.