• 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: 289,093,595

Today's Weather:

• high: 36
• low: 30

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 9:17 am
• sunset: 6:08 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9882.17

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1793 - Eliphalet Remington - American inventor and firearms maker who built the Remington Arms Company.
• 1914 - Dr. Jonas Salk - American scientist and physician whose anti-polio vaccine saved countless children from the miseries of the affliction.
• 1949 - Bruce Jenner - American athlete who achieved the unofficial title of "World's Greatest Athlete" by winning the Olympic Decathlon Gold Medal in 1976.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1886 - The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship to the people of America from the people of France, was dedicated at its site on Ellis Island by President Grover Cleveland.
• 1929 - Mrs. T.W. Evans became the first to give birth in an airplane as she delivered a bouncing baby girl in a plane over Miami, Florida.
• 1929 - In what was probably the toughest day in the history of the American economy, the stock market crashed, fortunes were lost and the country headed into the Great Depression.
• 1949 - Eugenia Moore Anderson took the oath of office to become U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, the first female Ambassador from the United States.

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