• 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: 289,117,523

Today's Weather:

• high: 26
• low: 12

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 98° - East Mesa, Ariz., and Rialto, California
• low: -26° - Arctic Village, Alaska

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:34 am
• sunset: 4:51 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9771.91

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1793 - Stephen Austin - Early settler and of the then Mexican territory of Texas and person for whom Texas' capital city, Austin, is named.
• 1845 - Edward Douglas White - Ninth Supreme Court Chief Justice who played an important role during the development of anti-monopoly laws in the early 20th Century.
• 1933 - Michael S Dukakis - Governor of Massachusetts and Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1988.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1868 - Republican John Willis Menard became the first black American to be elected to the U.S. Congress. Due to a legal challenge by his defeated opponent, he was never seated in the Congress.
• 1917 - The cost of living took a jump as the price of a first class stamp increased to three cents.
• 1948 - The most unexpected upset in American presidential politics took place with President Harry S. Truman defeating New York Governor Thomas Dewey.
• 1983 - A new national holiday was set as President Reagan signed a bill setting aside the third Monday of each January to honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

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