• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.88
• Gallon of Gasoline: $3.26
• Average New Home: $239,000.00
• New Car: $21,750.00
• Hospital Room Cost: $

Populations :

• Anchorage: 256,000
• U.S. Population: 289,057,703

Today's Weather:

• high: 45
• low: 32

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:53 am
• sunset: 6:34 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9995.91

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1810 - Cassius Marcellus Clay - American politician and newspaper publisher and antislavery leader despite being raised the son of a slaveowner.
• 1885 - Charles E. Merrill - American financier who guided his company through a series of mergers that resulted in giant stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch.
• 1931 - John Le Carre - Popular English author of realistic spy novels including "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "The Russia House" and others.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1781 - British General Cornwallis surrendered his army to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the American War of Independence.
• 1941 - Inventor Palmer Putnam helped shine the light on alternate forms of energy production as his wind turbine to generate electricity was set in motion at Grandpa's Knob, Vermont.

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