• 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: 288,942,051

Today's Weather:

• high: 54
• low: 44

Daylight:

• sunrise: 7:39 am
• sunset: 8:05 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9820.20

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1861 - Herbert Putnam - American library official who is credited with building the Library of Congress into one of the great libraries of the world.
• 1917 - Red Auerbach - Basketball coach who directed the Boston Celtics to a record nine NBA championships during a ten year span.
• 1935 - Jim Taylor - American professional football player and one of the top running backs in the history of the game.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1859 - George B. Simpson of Washington, D.C., received a patent for his truly great idea, the "electroheater", today known as the electric range.
• 1884 - The Equal Rights Party held its first convention in San Francisco, nominating Mrs. Belva Lockwood as its standard bearer and candidate for President of the United States.

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