• 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: 288,866,279

Today's Weather:

• high: 60
• low: 53

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 115° - Bullhead City, Ariz., and Death Valley, Ariz.
• low: 28° - Embarrass, Minn.

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:52 am
• sunset: 9:05 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9310.60

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs - American author from whose imagination sprung the hero of the jungle, Tarzan.
• 1923 - Rocky Marciano - World Heavyweight Champion from 1952-56 and the only world champion to have won every fight in his professional career.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1752 - One of America's most enduring symbols, the Liberty Bell, arrived in Philadelphia aboard a ship from England.
• 1836 - The first American settlement in the Northwest was established near Walla Walla, Washington, by Dr. and Mrs. Charles Whitman.
• 1985 - A U.S.-French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic 13,100 feet below the surface of the North Atlantic more than seventy years since it was lost at sea.

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