This day in history

Population:

Ashland: 20,600

U.S. population: 306,532,223

Sunrise and sunset:

7:38 a.m.

6:12 p.m.

Local weather:

Ashland high: 55° F

Ashland low: 43° F

The nation's weather extremes:

High: 103° at Laredo, Texas

Low: 8 at Northway, Alaska

The day's Dow Jones close:

9,867.96

Your dollar's worth

Loaf of bread: $2.49

Gallon of milk: $3.85

Gallon of gasoline: $2.97

First-class stamp: $0.44

New car: $21,750.00

Average new home: $336,000.00

Other interesting people born on this date:

1946 - Hillary Rodham Clinton - Attorney, political activist and First Lady of the United States and wife of 42nd U.S. President Bill Clinton.

1854 - Charles Post - American food processing entrepreneur and innovator who founded the giant Post cereal company and invented "Grape Nuts."

1786 - Henry Deringer - American inventor a firearms manufacturer known for the tiny deringer pistol fancied by professional gamblers in the Old West.

Other notable events
on this day in history:

1881 - Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan and Doc Holliday stepped into Western folklore as they routed the Clanton gang at the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral."

1858 - Inventor Hamilton Erastus Smith received a patent for a hand-cranked, rotary motion washing machine, a huge improvement over the tub and washboard method used previously.

1825 - The economic influence of mid-America was greatly enhanced with the opening of the 350 mile long Erie Canal that connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River.

1774 - The legendary citizen fighting force known as "The Minute Men" was organized in America. Six months later they would see the first action of the American War of Independence at Concord.