This day in history

Population:

Ashland: 20,600

U.S. population: 306,540,199

Sunrise and sunset:

7:40 a.m.

6:10 p.m.

Local weather:

Ashland high: 53° F

Ashland low: 35° F

The nation's weather extremes:

High: 103° at Laredo, Texas

Low: 8 at Northway, Alaska

The day's Dow Jones close:

9,882.17

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:

1949 - Bruce Jenner - American athlete who achieved the unofficial title of "World's Greatest Athlete" by winning the Olympic Decathlon Gold Medal in 1976.

1914 - Dr. Jonas Salk - American scientist and physician whose anti-polio vaccine saved countless children from the miseries of the affliction.

1793 - Eliphalet Remington - American inventor and firearms maker who built the Remington Arms Company.

Other notable events
on this day in history:

1949 - Eugenia Moore Anderson took the oath of office to become U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, the first female Ambassador from the United States.

1929 - Mrs. T.W. Evans became the first to give birth in an airplane as she delivered a bouncing baby girl in a plane over Miami, Florida.

1929 - In what was probably the toughest day in the history of the American economy, the stock market crashed, fortunes were lost and the country headed into the Great Depression.

1886 - The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship to the people of America from the people of France, was dedicated at its site on Ellis Island by President Grover Cleveland.