Market Basket:

• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.85
• First Class Stamp: $0.45
• Gallon of gasoline: $4.11
• New Car: $21750.00
• Average New Home: $320000.00
• Hospital Room: $0.00

Populations:

• Grass Valley: 13000
• U.S. Population: 312395862

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: :00 am
• Sunset: :00 pm
• Local high: 87 degrees F
• Local low: 62 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were 105 degrees recorded at Thermal, California, Lawton, Okla., and Laredo, Texas and 26 at Stanley, Idaho

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 13035.94

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1757 - Marquis de Lafayette - French aristocrat who served as a general in the American revolutionary army and was instrumental in the colonists' victory against the British.
• 1897 - Arthur Charles Nielsen - Market research pioneer and founder of the Nielsen ratings that gauge the size and demographics of radio and television show audiences.

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1774 - Forty-four delegates from eleven colonies gathered in Philadelphia for the opening of the first Continental Congress which would lead to the creation of the United States of America.
• 1836 - Sam Houston became the first president of the Republic of Texas.
• 1960 - Cassius Clay, the future three-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world Muhammed Ali, won the Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medal.