• 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: 289,073,655

Today's Weather:

• high: 55
• low: 39

Daylight:

• sunrise: 9:04 am
• sunset: 6:22 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9972.18

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1835 - Adlai Ewing Stevenson - Vice President of the United States in the administration of Grover Cleveland.
• 1869 - John Heisman - football coach and innovator credited with legalizing the forward pass. The trophy awarded annually the to the best collegiate player is named for him.
• 1906 - Gertrude Ederle - American Olympic gold medalist and the first woman to successfully swim across the English Channel.
• 1942 - Michael Crichton - American author whose books translated into some of the biggest movies of all time including "Jurassic Park", "Twister", "Rising Sun" and others.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1855 - Kansas became the only state to have two governments as anti-slavery forces swore in a governor and legislature in competition to the fraudulently elected pro-slavery group.
• 1885 - Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania opened its doors becoming the first college in the United States to offer graduate level courses for women.
• 1962 - Following the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, the United States quarantined the Island nation to prevent a buildup of offensive weapons. So began the "Cuban Missile Crisis."

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