• 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: 289,017,823

Today's Weather:

• high: 53
• low: 46

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 95° - Plant City, Ocala, and Live Oak, Fla, and Statesboro, Ga.
• low: 7° - Arctic Village, Alaska, and Logan, Mont.

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:27 am
• sunset: 7:05 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9786.87

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1860 - Leonard Wood - American Army Officer, physician, Governor General of the Philippines, and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920.
• 1873 - Charles Walgreen -American pharmacist and innovator who created the concept of the modern drugstore, and founded the largest drugstore chain in the U.S.
• 1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson - Highly theatrical evangelist who pioneered preaching on the radio and through that became wealthy, famous, and controversial.
• 1891 - Otto Schnering - American entrepreneur and candy manufacturer who founded the Curtiss Candy Co. and introduced Baby Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars to the world.
• 1940 - John Lennon - Lead singer and songwriter for the world's most commercially successful rock and roll band - the Beatles.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut, known today as Yale University, was chartered in New Haven, Connecticut.
• 1855 - Isaac Singer received a patent for the sewing machine motor, a device that greatly increased the productivity of garment workers and home hobbyists everywhere.
• 1872 - Aaron Montgomery initiated a new marketing technique with the release of the his first catalog. It was so successful that it resulted in the huge Montgomery Ward catalog and stores.
• 1946 - The Simmons Company of Petersburg, Virginia, introduced the first electric blanket, suggested retail price $39.50.

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