• Topeka's population: 120,300
• U.S. population:279,334,959

The weather

• The sun rose over Topeka at 7:15 a.m. and set at 6:00 p.m.
• The local high was 40° F and the low was 23° F.     The nation's weather extremes were 85° at Kailua Kona, Hawaii and -42° at Arctic Village, Alaska.

• The minimum wage in Kansas was $5.15.
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 7749.87.
• A loaf of bread was$1.49.
• A gallon of Milk cost $2.89.
• A first class stamp was $0.37.
• The average new home cost $132,500.00.
• And the price of a new car was $21,750.00.

• 1564 - Galileo Galilei - Italian mathematician, astronomer and thinker who was the first to use the telescope to study the stars and helped prove that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
• 1797 - Henry Engelhard Steinway - German-American piano builder who founded the company that continues to build some of the world's finest pianos, Steinway and Sons.
• 1809 - Cyrus Hall McCormick - American inventor of the reaper, which improved farmers' wheat harvest and was important in the national move from an agrarian to an industrial society.
• 1820 - Susan B. Anthony - American women's rights activist and the first woman to have her image displayed on an American coin; the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
• 1900 - Adlai E. Stevenson - American politician who helped found the United Nations, ran twice as the Democratic candidate for the presidency and was U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. under John F. Kennedy.

• 1799 - The first printed election ballots were sanctioned by the state of Pennsylvania.
• 1842 - Adhesive postage stamps were introduced by the City Dispatch Post Office in New York City.
• 1953 - Seventeen year old Tenley Albright became the first American to win the women's world figure skating championship on this day.