This day in history

Population:

Ashland: 20,600

U.S. population: 306,568,115

Sunrise and sunset:

6:49 a.m.

5:01 p.m.

Local weather:

Ashland high: 66° F

Ashland low: 32° F

The nation's weather extremes:

High: 97° at Mesa, Ariz.

Low: -29 at Arctic Village, Alaska

The day's Dow Jones close:

9,771.91

Your dollar's worth

Loaf of bread: $2.49

Gallon of milk: $3.85

Gallon of gasoline: $2.98

First-class stamp: $0.44

New car: $21,750.00

Average new home: $336,000.00

Other interesting people born on this date:

1879 - Will Rogers - One of America's best loved entertainers of the 20th Century known for his down-home humor and the creed he lived by: "I never met a man I didn't like."

1842 - William Cushing - Union Navy officer who gained an aura of invulnerability as he successfully accomplished four years of daring exploits during the Civil War.

1732 - Thomas Johnson - American patriot, first governor of Maryland, and Supreme Court Justice. He voted for the Declaration of Independence and nominated George Washington to be Commander in Chief.

Other notable events
on this day in history:

1939 - Packard unveiled the first air conditioned car at the Chicago, Illinois, automobile show.

1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross won the election to succeed her late husband as governor of Wyoming, becoming the first woman to be elected a state's governor in America.

1922 - Egyptologist Howard Carter uncovered the greatest find in the annals of Egyptian archeology, the 3,000 year old tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen.

1879 - James Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, received a patent on the first cash register, a machine he designed to reduce stealing by bartenders in his saloon.