• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.88
• Gallon of Gasoline: $3.09
• Average New Home: $239,000.00
• New Car: $21,750.00
• Hospital Room Cost: $

Populations :

• Anchorage: 256,000
• U.S. Population: 288,802,471

Today's Weather:

• high: 62
• low: 53

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 114° - Bullhead City, Ariz.
• low: 26° - Chemult, Ore.

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:11 am
• sunset: 9:54 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9321.40

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1913 - Menachem Begin - Israeli Prime Minister who negotiated and signed his country's first peace treaty with a neighboring Arab power, this with Egypt in 1979.
• 1927 - Fess Parker - Actor who brought Davy Crockett to life in a number of Disney TV specials during the 1950's and 60's.
• 1958 - Madonna - Singer turned actress known for her wild antics on and off-stage and roles in movies such as "Evita", "Desperately Seeking Susan", and "A League of Their Own."

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1896 - Three miners set off North America's second great gold rush, the Klondike Gold Rush, by finding gold in Rabbit Creek near the Klondike River in Alaska.
• 1923 - U.S. Steel introduced a new standard in labor relations by establishing an eight-hour work day for its employees.
• 1927 - Babe Ruth's home run hit recorded the first time a baseball had been hit completely out of Chicago's Comiskey Park.
• 1934 - Underwater explorers William Beebe and Otis Barton descended into the waters off Bermuda to a then unheard of depth of 3,028 feet inside a small steel ball called the Bathysphere.

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