• 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: 288,850,327

Today's Weather:

• high: 57
• low: 50

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 121° - Death Valley, California
• low: 25° - Chandalar Lake, Alaska

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:42 am
• sunset: 9:17 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9580.63

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1774 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton - Founder of the first American religious society - the Sisters of Charity and the first American-born person to achieve sainthood in the Catholic Church.
• 1828 - Leo Tolstoy - Russian author considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time, He is most recognized for the epic novels "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina".
• 1877 - Charles Stewart Rolls - British aviator who was first to fly across the English Channel and back without stopping. He also was co-founder of the legendary Rolls-Royce Ltd. automobile company.
• 1910 - Mother Teresa - Albanian born founder of the Catholic order of the Missionaries of Charity and dedicated servant to the impoverished of India.
• 1917 - Jack Kirby - "The King of the Comics". He helped develop 400 comic book characters, including superheroes, Captain America, Spiderman and The Incredible Hulk.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1830 - Passenger rail service was inaugurated in the United States with the maiden voyage of the "Tom Thumb", transporting 26 passengers 13 miles in just one hour fifteen minutes.
• 1922 - WEAF radio aired the first radio commercial, a 10-minute pitch for a real estate development in New York.

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