• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.88
• Gallon of Gasoline: $3.27
• Average New Home: $239,000.00
• New Car: $21,750.00
• Hospital Room Cost: $

Populations :

• Anchorage: 256,000
• U.S. Population: 288,894,195

Today's Weather:

• high: 61
• low: 46

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 118° - Death Valley, California
• low: 30° - Eagle, Alaska

Daylight:

• sunrise: 7:10 am
• sunset: 8:43 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9441.27

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1157 - Richard the Lionheart - King of England famous for his leadership during the Third Crusade.
• 1925 - Peter Sellers - English comedic actor who initiated millions of laughs as the slow-witted Inspector Cleuseau in the Pink Panther movies.
• 1932 - Patsy Cline - Country music balladeer with a beautiful, clear voice known for her hit songs, "Crazy", "I Fall to Pieces", "Walkin' After Midnight" and others.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1522 - Magellan's ship "Victoria" returned to Spain, completing the first-ever circumnavigation of the earth.
• 1636 - Cambridge College, renamed as Harvard College two years later, was established by The General Court of Massachusetts Bay, becoming the first college in America.
• 1921 - Sixteen year-old Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
• 1966 - Jennie Bushnell of Chicago, Illinois, gave birth to the first recorded sextuplets, three boys and three girls. Four of the six lived to old age.

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