This day in history

Population:

Ashland: 20,600

U.S. population: 306,484,367

Sunrise and sunset:

7:24 a.m.

6:31 p.m.

Local weather:

Ashland high: 66° F

Ashland low: 52° F

The nation's weather extremes:

High: 100° at McAllen, Texas

Low: 13 at Northway, Alaska, and Spincich Lake, Mich.

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:

1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower - Five Star General who as supreme commander directed Allied forces to victory in World War II and who became the 34th President of the United States.

1873 - Ray C. Ewry- American athlete who overcame polio to become the only athlete ever to win eight individual gold medals in the modern Olympic Games.

1857 - Elwood Haynes - American inventor who built one of the first automobiles and claimed to have received the first traffic ticket in it. The car is exhibited at the Smithsonian as the oldest surviving American-made automobile.

1644 - William Penn - English religious leader who founded the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe.

Other notable events
on this day in history:

1960 - Senator John Kennedy first expressed the idea of a Peace Corps during a campaign speech to students, a year later the all volunteer corps had become a reality.

1947 - Chuck Yeager, aboard the rocket-powered experimental aircraft X-1, became the first human to travel faster than the speed of sound.