• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.88
• Gallon of Gasoline: $3.20
• Average New Home: $239,000.00
• New Car: $21,750.00
• Hospital Room Cost: $

Populations :

• Anchorage: 256,000
• U.S. Population: 288,862,291

Today's Weather:

• high: 68
• low: 52

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 118° - Death Valley, California
• low: 25° - Chandalar Lake, Alaska

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:50 am
• sunset: 9:08 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9544.20

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1918 - Alan Jay Lerner - Academy and Grammy Award winning songwriter known for music and lyrics for many musicals, including, "Gigi", "Paint Your Wagon" and "My Fair Lady".
• 1935 - Frank Robinson - Baseball Hall of Famer, 1956 Rookie of the Year and the first African American to manage a major league baseball team.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1950 - Brooklyn Dodgers slugger Gil Hodges connected for four home runs in a single game, each from pitches thrown by different pitchers.
• 1955 - William G. Cobb rolled out the first solar powered car, the 15" sunmobile, at the General Motors Powerama in Chicago, Illinois.

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