Market Basket:

• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.85
• First Class Stamp: $0.45
• Gallon of gasoline: $4.58
• New Car: $21750.00
• Average New Home: $320000.00
• Hospital Room: $0.00

Populations:

• Grass Valley: 13000
• U.S. Population: 312543418

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: :00 am
• Sunset: :00 pm
• Local high: 60 degrees F
• Local low: 53 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were degrees recorded at and at

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 13326.39

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1803 - Alexander Stewart - American merchant who built the world's largest retail outlet in 1862 and developed the community of Garden City, Long Island.
• 1860 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry - Prolific American inventor and entrepreneur who received more than 400 patents and founded eight successful manufacturing companies during his life.
• 1935 - Luciano Pavarotti - Italian tenor who did much to popularize operatic music during the latter part of the 20th Century.

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1492 - Christopher Columbus recorded the first European sighting of the Western Hemisphere as the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria arrived in what is now the Bahamas.
• 1802 - Joseph Swift and Simon Levy traded in their cadet stripes for second lieutenant bars as they became the first graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
• 1881 - The Prospect House at Blue Mountain Lake, New York, set a new standard in luxury acomodations as it became the first hotel to install electric lights.