• 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: 288,842,351

Today's Weather:

• high: 60
• low: 50

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 115° - Death Valley, California
• low: 25° - Chandalar Lake, Alaska

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:37 am
• sunset: 9:24 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9539.29

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1873 - Lee De Forest - Iowa inventor and holder of hundreds of patents. He is most noted for cration of the Audion vacuum tube, the key to making radio reception possible.
• 1906 - Albert Sabin - Polish/American physician and medical scientist. He developed the first oral polio vaccine which protected millions of children world-wide from the horrific disease.
• 1935 - Geraldine Ferraro - American political leader and the first woman to be nominated for the Vice-Presidency by a major political party.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1873 - The St. Louis school board authorized the creation of America's first public kindergarten.
• 1883 - History's greatest recorded natural fireworks display, the volcanic explosion of Krakatoa, occurred. The blast, heard some 3,000 miles away, spewed five cubic miles of debris into the air, fifty miles high and created tidal waves up to 120 feet high.
• 1957 - Ford Motor Company rolled out its first Edsel. It was the wrong car for the wrong time and became the butt of jokes for many years. Today they are considered rare collectors items.

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