• 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: 288,870,267

Today's Weather:

• high: 55
• low: 51

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 117° - Death Valley, California
• low: 27° - Mekoryuk, Alaska

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:55 am
• sunset: 9:02 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9310.60

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1915 - A. G. Spalding - American baseball Hall of Famer and founder of the sporting goods manufacturing company that bears his name.
• 1948 - Christa McAuliffe - American teacher selected to be the first civilian in space who perished aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1948 - Terry Bradshaw - National Football League quarterback who led the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl victories in a span of six years.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1775 - America's first warship, the Hannah, was commissioned by General George Washington.
• 1901 - In a speech before the Minnesota State Fair, soon-to-be President Teddy Roosevelt declared his intention to maintain a strong foreign policy, stating that the U.S. will "speak softly and carry a big stick."
• 1945 - The deck of the battleship U.S.S. Missouri was the scene of Japan's signing surrender documents and the official end to World War II.

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