• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.88
• Gallon of Gasoline: $3.34
• Average New Home: $239,000.00
• New Car: $21,750.00
• Hospital Room Cost: $

Populations :

• Anchorage: 256,000
• U.S. Population: 288,961,991

Today's Weather:

• high: 46
• low: 39

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 7:52 am
• sunset: 7:49 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9707.44

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1725 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot - French engineer and designer of the first true automobile, a steam-powered tricycle.
• 1764 - Fletcher Christian - British sailor and the leader of the most famous mutiny in history, the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty.
• 1897 - William Faulkner - Nobel Prize winning author who many include on the list of great 20th Century writers for novels such as "The Sound and the Fury", "As I Lay Dying" and others.
• 1952 - Christopher Reeve - Popular American actor who brought Superman to the big screen and became a full-time advocate for handicapped people, following his own unfortunate accident.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa became the first European to view the Pacific Ocean from the Americas, doing so from a peak in the Darien rain forest in what is now Panama.
• 1960 - Presidential election campaigns changed forever as Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy debated on live TV before an audience of some 69 million people. Kennedy won the debate and the election.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first woman Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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