Local weather:
The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 82° at McAllen, Texas
- Low: -44% at Huslia, Alaska
The day's Dow Jones close:
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Your dollar's worth
- Loaf of bread: $1.98
- Gallon of milk: $2.98
- Gallon of gasoline: $2.60
- First-class stamp: $0.41
- New car: $21,750.00
- Average new home: $241,300.00
Other interesting people
born on this date:
- 1947 - Steven Spielberg - American motion-picture director and producer noted for a long list of successful movies including "Jaws", "ET", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the Academy Award winning "Schindler"s List" and a long list of others.
- 1913 - Betty Grable - Actress and World War II "Pin-Up Girl" idolized by soldiers and sailors as the ideal woman of her time.
- 1886 - Ty Cobb - Big league baseball player, many believe to be the greatest offensive player in the history of the game compiling records of 2,244 runs, 1,959 runs batted in, 892 stolen bases and a lifetime batting average of .367 during 24 seasons.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
- 1956 - Eleven years after the end of the second World War, Japan became a member of the United Nations.
- 1898 - The world's first official land speed record was recorded. Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat drove his atuomobile an amazing 39.245 m.p.h.
- 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery was ratified.
- 1787 - New Jersey becomes the third colony to achieve statehood in the United States of America.
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