• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.88
• Gallon of Gasoline: $3.13
• Average New Home: $239,000.00
• New Car: $21,750.00
• Hospital Room Cost: $

Populations :

• Anchorage: 256,000
• U.S. Population: 288,806,459

Today's Weather:

• high: 68
• low: 53

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 114° - Death Valley, California
• low: 27° - Big Piney and Cora, Wyo.

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:14 am
• sunset: 9:51 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9321.40

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1786 - Davy Crockett - American legendary frontiersman, soldier, scout, Congressman, and defender of the Alamo.
• 1882 - Samuel Goldwyn - Academy Award-winning movie producer and the "G" in one of the grandest movie studios of all-time, MGM.
• 1893 - Mae West - Comedic actress and one of the most popular performers of her generation known for roles in early film classics "My Little Chicadee", "I'm No Angel", and others.
• 1943 - Robert DeNiro - Powerful Academy Award-winning actor who starred in "Raging Bull", "The Godfather II", "Taxi Driver", "Cape Fear", and many more."

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1807 - Robert Fulton's famous steamboat, the Clermont, set upon its first trip up the Hudson River.
• 1933 - Lou Gehrig set a major league baseball record by playing in his 1,308th straight game, his would be one of the longest standing records, standing until 1995.
• 1978 - Ben Abruzzon, Larry Newman and Maxie Leroy Anderson landed their balloon, Double Eagle II, in Paris, thus completing the first successful balloon crossing of the Atlantic.

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