• 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: 288,858,303

Today's Weather:

• high: 66
• low: 48

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 119° - Death Valley, California
• low: 27° - Embarrass, Minn.

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:47 am
• sunset: 9:11 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9544.20

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1797 - Mary Shelley - English novelist and creator of the world's most famous monster, in her book, "Frankenstein."
• 1870 - Maria Montessori - Italian physician and educator. She founded the Montessori educational system based on the belief in children's creative potential, drive to learn, and right to be treated as individuals.
• 1893 - Huey P. Long - Flamboyant, populist governor of Louisiana and U.S. senator whose political machine nearly affected a near dictatorship in his state of Louisiana.
• 1918 - Ted Williams - Major league heavy hitter who achieved a .406 batting average in 1941 and a career total of 521 home runs, despite a five year career interruption as to fly military planes during World War II and Korea.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1682 - Quaker leader and religious freedom advocate, William Penn, set sail from England to the "New World" where he would establish the colony (and later state) of Pennsylvania.
• 1962 - To ensure open communication between the two superpowers during times of international stress, a "hot line" was installed between the White House in Washington, D.C., and the Kremlin in Moscow.
• 1983 - Lt. Colonel Guion Bluford blasted off aboard the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger becoming the first American of African ancestry to travel in space.

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