• 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: 289,061,691

Today's Weather:

• high: 42
• low: 30

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:56 am
• sunset: 6:31 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 10092.19

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1632 - Sir Christopher Wren - English astronomer, mathematician and the greatest architect of his time, credited with the design of 53 London churches including St. Paul's Cathedral.
• 1884 - Bela Lugosi - Actor who introduced movie audiences to one of the most frightening characters of all time, Count Dracula in the 1931 classic of the same name.
• 1905 - Frederick Dannay - Co-author, with Cousin Manfred Lee, of the classic detective stories featuring master detective Ellery Queen.
• 1931 - Mickey Mantle - Baseball Hall of Famer, three-time most valuable player, one of the game's heaviest hitters and most popular players of all time.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1803 - The U.S. Senate ratified the purchase of an 828,000 square mile parcel of land from France known as the Louisiana Purchase. The cost was a little less than three cents per acre.
• 1929 - America's first community hospital was organized this date in Elk City, Oklahoma.

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