• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.88
• Gallon of Gasoline: $3.28
• Average New Home: $239,000.00
• New Car: $21,750.00
• Hospital Room Cost: $

Populations :

• Anchorage: 256,000
• U.S. Population: 289,089,607

Today's Weather:

• high: 39
• low: 35

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 9:15 am
• sunset: 6:11 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9882.17

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1728 - James Cook - British sea captain and explorer who was the first European to see and chart many land masses in the Pacific Ocean.
• 1811 - Issac Singer, American entrepreneur and innovator who brought the world the first practical home sewing machine and started the company that bears his name.
• 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt - 26th President of the United States known for building the Panama Canal and beginning the National Park System.
• 1872 - Emily Post - American author whose book "Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage" has made her name synonymous with proper manners in society.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1492 - Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the New World, became the first European to view the Island of Cuba and claimed it for Spain.
• 1904 - The first rapid transit subway system in American began operation in New York City. The fare for a ride was five cents.
• 1997 - In an effort to thwart the long-standing problem of counterfeiting, the U.S. Treasury began issuing redesigned $50 bills.
• 2004 - The Boston Red Sox broke the 84-year long "Curse of the Bambino" by winning their first World Series since 1918.

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