• 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: 288,898,183

Today's Weather:

• high: 64
• low: 50

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 7:12 am
• sunset: 8:40 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9497.34

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1754 - Captain William Bligh - Captain of Her Majesty's Ship, Bounty, at the time of the most famous mutiny in history, known as the "Mutiny on the Bounty".
• 1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders - American entrepreneur and founder of the fast food chain, Kentucky Fried Chicken.
• 1893 - Esther Cleveland - Daughter of President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland. She was the first baby born to Presidential parents in the White House.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1776 - The Second Continental Congress changed the name of the fledgling country from "United Colonies" to the "United States."
• 1836 - Abraham Lincoln was awarded a license to practice law in the state of Illinois.
• 1850 - California became the 31st state admitted to the Union.
• 1926 - NBC was established in New York with a mission to provide nationwide radio broadcasts.

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