• 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: 289,029,787

Today's Weather:

• high: 57
• low: 41

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 94° - Live Oak, Fla.
• low: -13° - Polebridge, Mont.

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:35 am
• sunset: 6:56 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9885.80

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1803 - Alexander Stewart - American merchant who built the world's largest retail outlet in 1862 and developed the community of Garden City, Long Island.
• 1860 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry - Prolific American inventor and entrepreneur who received more than 400 patents and founded eight successful manufacturing companies during his life.
• 1935 - Luciano Pavarotti - Italian tenor who did much to popularize operatic music during the latter part of the 20th Century.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1492 - Christopher Columbus recorded the first European sighting of the Western Hemisphere as the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria arrived in what is now the Bahamas.
• 1802 - Joseph Swift and Simon Levy traded in their cadet stripes for second lieutenant bars as they became the first graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
• 1881 - The Prospect House at Blue Mountain Lake, New York, set a new standard in luxury acomodations as it became the first hotel to install electric lights.

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