• 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: 289,045,739

Today's Weather:

• high: 46
• low: 36

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 103° - Laredo, Texas
• low: 8° - Northway, Alaska

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:45 am
• sunset: 6:43 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 10062.94

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1758 - Noah Webster - American lexicographer and creator of the "American Dictionary of the English Language" and of the "American Spelling Book" which has sold an estimated 100,000,000 copies.
• 1886 - David Ben-Gurion - Zionist political leader and Israel's first Prime Minister, known as the "Father of Israel."
• 1898 - William O. Douglas - Held the record for the longest tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court - 36 years from 1939 to 1975

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1829 - America's first modern, first-class hotel, the 170 room Tremont Hotel opened in Boston. Rooms cost $2 a day, but that included 4 meals.
• 1846 - Dr. John Warren demonstrated the use of ether as an anesthetic in a surgery during a procedure performed at Massachsetts General Hospital.

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