• 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: 288,906,159

Today's Weather:

• high: 66
• low: 52

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 7:17 am
• sunset: 8:33 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9627.48

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1862 - O. Henry - American author of many short stories noted for their surprise endings; most notably the classic, "Gift of the Magi".
• 1924 - Tom Landry - Professional Football Hall of Fame coach who coached the Dallas Cowboys during their first 29 years of existence and built them into a dominant team in the NFL.
• 1937 - Robert L. Crippen - American astronaut who sent chills of pride rippling through America as he landed the Columbia, April 12, 1981, following the shuttle's first flight into space.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1789 - President George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton to be the first Secretary of the Treasury.
• 1875 - "Professor Tidwissel's Burglar Alarm" was published for the first time in the New York Daily Graphic. It was the beginning of America's newspaper comic strip tradition.
• 1952 - Heart surgery made a giant leap forward as Dr. Charles Hufnagel of the Georgetown University Medical Center successfully replaced a patient's malfunctioning heart valve with an artificial valve made of plastic.

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