• 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: 289,069,667

Today's Weather:

• high: 45
• low: 36

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 9:01 am
• sunset: 6:25 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9949.36

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1811 - Franz Liszt - Hungarian musician recognized as the greatest piano virtuoso of his time and with more than 700 compositions, one of the great music composers of all-time.
• 1821 - Collis Huntington - American who played a major role in opening up the American West through his development of Central Pacific Railroad into the first transcontinental railroad.
• 1844 - Sarah Bernhardt - French actress who performed in Europe and America during the late 1800's and early 1900's becoming one of the best known performing artists ever.
• 1938 - Christopher Lloyd - American comedic actor known for his roles as Reverend Jim on TV series "Taxi", as a key figure in the "Back to the Futures" moves, and in many other big screen hits.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1797 - French adventurer Andre-Jacques Garnerin jumped from a hot air balloon 2300 feet above Paris and into history as he became the first person to successfully complete a parachute jump.
• 1836 - Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first elected President of the newly formed Republic of Texas.

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