• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.88
• Gallon of Gasoline: $3.31
• Average New Home: $239,000.00
• New Car: $21,750.00
• Hospital Room Cost: $

Populations :

• Anchorage: 256,000
• U.S. Population: 288,922,111

Today's Weather:

• high: 63
• low: 43

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 7:27 am
• sunset: 8:20 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9626.80

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1789 - James Fenimore Cooper - Recognized to be the first major American novelist. He created frontier adventure novels, including, "The Last of the Mohicans", "The Pathfinder" and "The Deerslayer".
• 1857 - William Howard Taft - 27th President of the United States
• 1881 - Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti - Pioneer builder of wonderful racing and luxury automobiles. He founded the famous Bugatti automobile company.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1853 - Reverend Antoinette Brown Blackwell was ordained at the Congressional Church in South Butler, New York, becoming the first female minister in the United States.
• 1858 - The Butterfield Overland Mail Company began the first overland regular mail service to the west coast, it took 25 days for a letter to travel the 2,800 miles between Tipton, Missouri, and San Francisco, California.
• 1928 - Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovered a substance in the penicillin mold that kills many bacteria that infect humans. Penicillin was the first effective antibiotic.

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