Local weather:
The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 91° at Canadian, Texas
- Low: -10% at Anaktuvuk Pass and Bettles, Alaska
The day's Dow Jones close:
Your dollar's worth
- Loaf of bread: $2.49
- Gallon of milk: $3.85
- Gallon of gasoline: $2.61
- First-class stamp: $0.44
- New car: $21,750.00
- Average new home: $132,500.00
Other interesting people
born on this date:
- 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.
- 1861 - James Naismith - Canadian-American physical-education director who, in 1891, invented the game of basketball.
- 1854 - John Philip Sousa - American composer known as "The March King" for military marches "Stars and Stripes Forever", "Semper Fidelis", and many others.
- 1851 - Charles Henry Dow - American journalist and inventor who developed the system of stock market analysis that has become the Dow Jones stock averages.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
- 1928 - Jacob Schick received a patent for the first electric razor.
- 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th President of the United States.
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