• 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: 289,101,571

Today's Weather:

• high: 37
• low: 21

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:23 am
• sunset: 5:02 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9962.58

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1735 - John Adams -One of United States Founding Fathers - Vice President under George Washington; 2nd President of the United States
• 1882 - William F. "Bull" Halsey, U.S. Navy Admiral whose leadership of the 3rd Fleet was a key factor in the victory over Japanese forces during World War II.
• 1893 - Charles Atlas- Italian-born American physical fitness pioneer who marketed the amazingly popular Charles Atlas mail-order bodybuilding course during the first half of the 20th Century.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1888 - John Loud of Wemouth, Massachusetts, was awarded a patent for the ball point pen.
• 1938 - Orson Welles broadcast the play, "War of the Worlds" on CBS radio. It was so effective that thousands truly believed that Earth was being invaded by Martians.
• 1945 - The rationing of shoes in America, that was imposed during World War II, came to an end.
• 1990 - Ground transportation between the island nation of England and France became a reality as tunnel construction crews met under the English Channel.

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