• 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: 289,037,763

Today's Weather:

• high: 46
• low: 44

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 100° - McAllen, Texas
• low: 13° - Northway, Alaska, and Spincich Lake, Mich.

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:40 am
• sunset: 6:49 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9885.80

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1644 - William Penn - English religious leader who founded the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe.
• 1857 - Elwood Haynes - American inventor who built one of the first automobiles and claimed to have received the first traffic ticket in it. The car is exhibited at the Smithsonian as the oldest surviving American-made automobile.
• 1873 - Ray C. Ewry- American athlete who overcame polio to become the only athlete ever to win eight individual gold medals in the modern Olympic Games.
• 1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower - Five Star General who as supreme commander directed Allied forces to victory in World War II and who became the 34th President of the United States.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1947 - Chuck Yeager, aboard the rocket-powered experimental aircraft X-1, became the first human to travel faster than the speed of sound.
• 1960 - Senator John Kennedy first expressed the idea of a Peace Corps during a campaign speech to students, a year later the all volunteer corps had become a reality.

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