• 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: 288,973,955

Today's Weather:

• high: 46
• low: 35

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 7:59 am
• sunset: 7:39 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9665.19

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1839 - Frances Willard - American political activist who founded the WTCU (World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union) in 1883, one of the forces that resulted in alcohol prohibition during the 1920's.
• 1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggin - Leader of the kindergarten education movement in the United States and author of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."
• 1909 - Al Capp - Cartoonist whose newspaper comic strip, "Li'l Abner", with characters Daisy Mae, Mammy Yokum, Li'l Abner and others, delighted readers from 1934 through 1977.
• 1954 - Steve Largent - Outstanding pro-football wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks who set records for most consecutive games with a reception, most yards on receptions and others. Later a U.S. Congressman.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1542 - Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed at San Diego Bay, the first European landing on the Pacific Coast and the first exploration of what is now California.
• 1781 - Some 16,000 Colonial and French troops began the siege of Yorktown, the action that would result in the British surrender and the end to the American War of Independence.
• 1910 - Optometry classes were offered for the first time in America with the introduction of a two-year course in the field at Columbia University in New York City.

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