• 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: 289,065,679

Today's Weather:

• high: 42
• low: 34

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:59 am
• sunset: 6:28 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 10041.48

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1736 - William Shippen, Jr. - First physician to offer courses in anatomy, surgery, and obstetrics in the United States and to open a maternity hospital in America.
• 1772 - Samuel Coleridge - English poet most remembered for his classic tale, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
• 1833 - Alfred Nobel -Swedish chemist and entrepreneur who invented dynamite and other, explosives and who used some of the fortune they brought him to found the Nobel Prizes.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1797 - One of the U.S. Navy's first warships, the Frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston. Known as "Old Ironsides", she is the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy.
• 1805 - In one of the greatest sea battles of all time, The Battle of Trafalgar, the British fleet, under Admiral Horatio Nelson, defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets.
• 1879 - Thomas Edison successfully tested an incandescent electric light following 13 months of research and thousands of experiments.

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