• 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: 288,969,967

Today's Weather:

• high: 46
• low: 34

Daylight:

• sunrise: 7:57 am
• sunset: 7:42 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9665.19

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1722 - Samuel Adams - American politician and patriot, member of the Continental Congress and a planner of the Boston Tea Party. You will find his signature on the Declaration of Independence.
• 1822 - Hiram R. Revels - American clergyman who was elected to the U.S. Senate to fill the unexpired term of former Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, thus becoming the first black person elected to the Senate.
• 1855 - Joy Morton - American entrepreneur who founded and built America's largest salt company, the Morton Salt Company.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1779 - The U.S. Congress appointed future president John Adams to negotiate an end to the American War of Independence with Great Britain.
• 1892 - The Diamond Match Company of Barberton, Ohio, received a patent for book matches.

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