• 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: 289,097,583

Today's Weather:

• high: 39
• low: 26

National Weather Extremes:

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

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:20 am
• sunset: 5:05 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9762.69

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1815 - Daniel Emmett - American music troupe leader and composer known for the song "Dixie" which was the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy and the South.
• 1891 - Fanny Brice - American actress and comedienne famous for her starring roles in the Ziegfeld Follies and as inspiration for the movie "Funny Girl."
• 1921 - Bill Mauldin - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who brought the lives of soldiers in World War II into focus with his characters GI Joe and Willie.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1796 - Captain Ebenezer Dorr recorded in the log of the ship Otter, that he had arrived off the coast of California, becoming the first American ship to sail there.
• 1863 - The International Red Cross was founded in Geneva, Switzerland.

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