• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.88
• Gallon of Gasoline: $3.32
• Average New Home: $239,000.00
• New Car: $21,750.00
• Hospital Room Cost: $

Populations :

• Anchorage: 256,000
• U.S. Population: 289,113,535

Today's Weather:

• high: 28
• low: 14

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 94° - Rialto, California
• low: -17° - Anaktuvuk Pass and Denali National Park, Alaska

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:31 am
• sunset: 4:54 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9789.44

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1734 - Daniel Boone - Legendary American frontiersman who blazed the trail through the Cumberland Gap opening Kentucky to the country's first westward expansion.
• 1755 - Marie-Antoinette - Most famous Queen of France in history whose opposition to reform contributed to the development of the French Revolution in 1792.
• 1795 - James K. Polk - 11th President of the United States whose time in office is marked by territorial gains including Texas, California, and the Oregon territory.
• 1865 - Warren G. Harding - Ohio lieutenant governor, U.S. Senator, and 29th President of the Untied States.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states admitted to the Union.
• 1947 - The world's largest airplane, Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose," made its only flight, one mile at 80 mph. The plane's wingspan measured 320 feet and it weighed about 400,000 pounds.

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