Market Basket:

• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.85
• First Class Stamp: $0.45
• Gallon of gasoline: $3.75
• New Car: $21750.00
• Average New Home: $320000.00
• Hospital Room: $0.00

Populations:

• Grass Valley: 13000
• U.S. Population: 312671034

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: :00 am
• Sunset: :00 pm
• Local high: 64 degrees F
• Local low: 42 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were degrees recorded at and at

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 12815.16

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1718 - John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich - British first lord of the Admiralty during the American Revolution and person for whom both the Sandwich Islands and the sandwich are named.
• 1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish author of fiction and travel books, best known for his great adventures "Treasure Island", "Kidnapped", and the "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
• 1856 - Louis Brandeis - American lawyer who broke race and religious barriers by becoming the first Jewish U.S. Supreme Court Justice in 1916.

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1789 - Ben Franklin noted in a letter to a friend what has become one of the world's most often quoted phrases, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes."
• 1940 - The strange and wonderful Walt Disney full-length animated movie "Fantasia" premiered in New York.
• 1971 - Man pushed a little farther into space this day with the launch of Mariner 9. It was the first to orbit and map Mars and study its thin atmosphere.