• 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: 289,077,643

Today's Weather:

• high: 51
• low: 37

Daylight:

• sunrise: 9:07 am
• sunset: 6:20 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9972.18

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1788 - Sarah Hale - American journalist and author who penned "Mary had a Little Lamb" in 1830.
• 1855 - James Sherman - Vice President of the United States in the administration of William Howard Taft.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1861 - The Pony Express suffered a fatal blow with the initiation of the transcontinental telegraph. That first telegram was sent from California Chief Justice Stephen Johnson Field to President Lincoln.
• 1901 - Adventurer Anna Edson Taylor began a daredevils' tradition when she fell 175 feet over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She did live to tell about it.
• 1931 - The efforts of Elliot Ness and the "Untouchables" paid off as famed Chicago gangster, Al Capone, was sentenced to serve 11 years in federal prison for income tax evasion.
• 1945 - The United Nations was formally established with the ratification of the U.N. Charter by the five permanent members of the Security Council and a majority of other participants.

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