This day in history

Population :

• Topeka: 120,300

• U.S. population: 288,850,327

Sunrise and sunset:

Your dollar's worth

Loaf of bread: $2.49
Gallon of milk: $3.85
Gallon of gasoline: $2.45
First-class stamp: $0.44
New car: $21,750.00
Average new home: $132,500.00

Other interesting people
born on this date:

1917 - Jack Kirby - "The King of the Comics". He helped develop 400 comic book characters, including superheroes, Captain America, Spiderman and The Incredible Hulk.
1910 - Mother Teresa - Albanian born founder of the Catholic order of the Missionaries of Charity and dedicated servant to the impoverished of India.
1877 - Charles Stewart Rolls - British aviator who was first to fly across the English Channel and back without stopping. He also was co-founder of the legendary Rolls-Royce Ltd. automobile company.
1828 - Leo Tolstoy - Russian author considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time, He is most recognized for the epic novels "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina".
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton - Founder of the first American religious society - the Sisters of Charity and the first American-born person to achieve sainthood in the Catholic Church.

Other notable events
on this day in history:

1922 - WEAF radio aired the first radio commercial, a 10-minute pitch for a real estate development in New York.
1830 - Passenger rail service was inaugurated in the United States with the maiden voyage of the "Tom Thumb", transporting 26 passengers 13 miles in just one hour fifteen minutes.