• 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: 288,997,883

Today's Weather:

• high: 46
• low: 41

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 97° - Laredo and McAllen, Texas
• low: 3° - Arctic Village, Alaska

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:14 am
• sunset: 7:20 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9487.67

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes - Nineteenth President of the United States from 1877 to 1881.
• 1861 - Frederic Remington - American painter and sculptor whose work has given us a vivid portrayal of life in the Old West.
• 1924 - Charleton Heston - Academy Award-winning actor best known for his starring roles in epics like "Ben-Hur", "El Cid", "The Ten Commandments", and others.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1881 - Edward Leveaux of Sussex, England, received a patent for the first fully automatic player piano.
• 1957 - The Soviet Union stunned the world and began the space race by successfully launching the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around the earth.

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