• 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: 288,838,363

Today's Weather:

• high: 63
• low: 48

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 108° - Imperial, California
• low: 27° - Nikolai, Alaska, and Polebridge, Mont.

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:34 am
• sunset: 9:27 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9539.29

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1819 - Allan Pinkerton - Founder of the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency and the man who headed Union efforts to gather information on the South during the Civil War.
• 1918 - Leonard Bernstein - American musician and conductor who composed many and varied musical scores.
• 1930 - Sean Connery - Enormously popular actor who brought British secret agent James Bond to life in a number of 007 films. He also starred in a wide array of other successful movies.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1875 - Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel doing so in a time of 21 hours, 45 minutes. Nobody else would successfully accomplish the feat for another 35 years.
• 1916 - The U.S. National Park Service was created to conserve the scenery, natural and historic objects and the wild life of the National Parks and to preserve them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
• 1920 - Ethelda Bleibtrey won the 100 meter freestyle swimming competition at the 1920 Olympics becoming the first American woman to bring home a Gold Medal.

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