• 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: 288,814,435

Today's Weather:

• high: 66
• low: 52

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 119° - Death Valley, California
• low: 27° - Boulder, Wyo.

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:19 am
• sunset: 9:45 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9217.94

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1871 - Orville Wright - With brother Wilbur, he proved that sustained flight by a powered, heavier than air aircraft was possible at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on Dec. 17, 1903.
• 1921 - Gene Roddenberry - Creator of the incredibly popular television series known as "Star Trek."
• 1931 - Willie Shoemaker - Most winning jockey in horse racing history having won 8,833 times in 40,350 races.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1918 - America's first fighter plane debuted at Garden City, New York. It attained a speed of 162 miles per hour and, later in the year, would set an altitude record by climbing to 26,300 feet.
• 1950 - The first Saturday morning children's TV shows appeared on ABC with the introduction of "Animal Clinic" and "Acrobat Ranch."

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