• 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: 288,930,087

Today's Weather:

• high: 59
• low: 46

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 7:32 am
• sunset: 8:14 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9791.71

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1854 - David Dunbar Buick - Automotive pioneer who founded the Buick Manufacturing Company in 1902 and whose innovations included the valve-in-head engine and the windshield
• 1900 - John Willard Marriott - American businessman who founded and built one of the country's most prominent hotel chains, which bears his name.
• 1923 - Hank Williams, Sr. - Legendary singer-songwriter whose songs "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", "Honky Tonkin'" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" are American country music classics.
• 1930 - Edgar Mitchell - American astronaut, member of the Apollo 14 crew and one of just a handful of people to set foot on the moon.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1787 - A nation unlike any other was born as the Constitution of the United States of America was signed this day by delegates from twelve states at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1911 - Pilot Calbraith Perry Rodgers flew his biplane out of Sheepshead Bay, New York, on what would become the first successful transcontinental airplane flight. Actual flight time for the 3,400 mile journey was just over 82 hours, but the trip took 49 days.

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