• 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: 289,129,487

Today's Weather:

• high: 37
• low: 30

National Weather Extremes:

• high: 91° - Canadian, Texas
• low: -10° - Anaktuvuk Pass and Bettles, Alaska

Daylight:

• sunrise: 8:42 am
• sunset: 4:43 pm

Today's Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 10005.96

Other Interesting People
Born on this Date:

• 1851 - Charles Henry Dow - American journalist and inventor who developed the system of stock market analysis that has become the Dow Jones stock averages.
• 1854 - John Philip Sousa - American composer known as "The March King" for military marches "Stars and Stripes Forever", "Semper Fidelis", and many others.
• 1861 - James Naismith - Canadian-American physical-education director who, in 1891, invented the game of basketball.
• 1892 - John William Alcock - British aviator, who with Arthur Brown, made the first nonstop transatlantic flight in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh's famous solo flight.

Other Notable Events
on this Day in History

• 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th President of the United States.
• 1928 - Jacob Schick received a patent for the first electric razor.

http://www.alaskaregional.com