• 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: 288,954,015

Today's Weather:

• high: 48
• low: 34

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 7:47 am
• sunset: 7:55 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9829.87

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1745 - John Sevier - American Revolutionary War hero, frontiersman, U.S. Congressman and the first Governor of the short-lived state of Franklin and later of the state of Tennessee.
• 1861 - Robert Bosch - German engineer who invented, among other things, two devices necessary for the development of the automobile - the magneto and the sparkplug.
• 1889 - Walter Lippmann - American newspaperman who became one of the most respected political columnists in the world and won Pulitzer Prizes in 1958 and 1962 for his work.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1845 - Alexander Joe Cartwright organized the first modern baseball team, the Knickerbocker Club of New York. They had to wait until June of 1846 before another team was available to play and then lost to their opponents 23 to 1.

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