• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.88
• Gallon of Gasoline: $3.15
• Average New Home: $239,000.00
• New Car: $21,750.00
• Hospital Room Cost: $

Populations :

• Anchorage: 256,000
• U.S. Population: 288,834,375

Today's Weather:

• high: 62
• low: 48

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 110° - Ocotillo Wells, California
• low: 24° - Seneca, Ore.

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:32 am
• sunset: 9:30 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9505.96

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1880 - Joshua Lionel Cowen - American inventor of the electric toy train and founder of the Lionel Company.
• 1890 - Duke Kahanamoku - Hawaiian swimming legend who won five Olympic medals, including three gold in three Olympics over a 12 year period.
• 1960 - Cal Ripken, Jr. - The iron-man of baseball. Baltimore Orioles shortstop who holds the record for the most consecutive games played.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1814 - British forces captured Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol, White House and other government buildings in revenge for earlier burnings of Canadian government buildings by U.S. troops.
• 1891 - Thomas Edison received one of his more than 1,000 patents, this one for the motion picture camera.
• 1932 - Amelia Earhart left Los Angeles on the first transcontinental nonstop flight by a woman. She landed 19 hours later, 2600 miles away in Newark, New Jersey.

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