• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.88
• Gallon of Gasoline: $3.27
• Average New Home: $239,000.00
• New Car: $21,750.00
• Hospital Room Cost: $

Populations :

• Anchorage: 256,000
• U.S. Population: 289,001,871

Today's Weather:

• high: 48
• low: 37

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 101° - Laredo, Texas
• low: 7° - Arctic Village, Alaska

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:17 am
• sunset: 7:17 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9487.67

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1830 - Chester A. Arthur - Twenty-first President of the United States from 1881-1885.
• 1882 - Robert Goddard - American Physicist and the "Father of Modern Rocketry" who achieved the first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.
• 1902 - Ray Kroc - American entrepreneur who built the McDonald's fast food empire.
• 1929 - Richard Gordon, Jr. - American astronaut who piloted the Command Module during Apollo 12, the second flight to land humans on the moon.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1947 - President Harry Truman became the first President to address the nation via television, asking citizens to help the starving in Euorope by abstaining from eating meat and poultry one day a week.
• 1953 - The New York Yankees clinched the World Series becoming the first baseball team to ever win five consecutive World Championships.
• 1970 - David Kunst completed a 14,450 mile walk across four continents that encircled the globe. It was the first verified walk around the world.

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