• 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: 288,854,315

Today's Weather:

• high: 68
• low: 52

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 121° - Death Valley, California
• low: 26° - Bettles, Alaska

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:45 am
• sunset: 9:14 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9544.20

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes - American physician, poet, and humorist. He was largely responsible for marshaling public opinion for saving America's oldest warship, the USS Constitution, from destruction.
• 1876 - Charles F. Kettering - American engineer and co-founder of Delco. His inventions included the first electric cash register and the electric starter for automobiles, first installed on the 1912 Cadillac.
• 1915 - Ingrid Bergman - Beautiful and popular Academy Award-winning actress who achieved immortality playing the female lead in the movie classic, "Casablanca".

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1885 - John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in the first prize fight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules.
• 1907 - Jim Casey and Claude Ryan of Seattle, Washington, started a local delivery service called the American Messenger Company. Today it is known as UPS.
• 1963 - Civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., stirred a quarter million followers as he delivered his most famous speech, entitled "I Have a Dream", at the Lincoln Memorial.
• 1972 - Amazing American athlete Mark Spitz won the first of his seven Olympic Gold Medals finishing the 200-meter butterfly in a world record two minutes, seven tenths second.

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