• 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: 288,874,255

Today's Weather:

• high: 66
• low: 46

Daylight:

• sunrise: 6:57 am
• sunset: 8:59 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9280.67

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1875 - Ferdinand Porsche - Austrian automobile designer responsible for the first Volkswagen, as well as many classic sports cars.
• 1923 - Mort Walker - American cartoonist who created two very popular, long-running newspaper comic stripsm "Beetle Bailey" and "Hi and Lois".

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1189 - Famed British Royal, Richard the Lionheart, was coronated King of England at Westminster Abbey in London.
• 1777 - The American flag was flown in battle for the first time, this during a Revolutionary War skirmish at Cooch's Bridge, Maryland.
• 1888 - George Eastman of Rochester, New York, received a patent for the first camera to use rolled film, a fixed focus box camera called the "Kodak No. 1."
• 1935 - British speed king, Sir Malcolm Campbell, set a new land speed record, completing two one-mile runs at the Bonneville salt flats with an average speed of 301 miles per hour.

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