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: 312690974

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: :00 am
• Sunset: :00 pm
• Local high: 53 degrees F
• Local low: 48 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were degrees recorded at and at

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 12588.31

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1901 - George Gallup - American pollster whose Gallup Poll was the most recognized and watched public opinion sample survey organization of the 20th Century.
• 1923 - Alan B. Shepard, Jr. -One of America's first astronauts and the first American to travel in space - doing so aboard Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961.

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1883 - The Standard Time program, which broke the country into time zones, was placed into effect in the United States. Before this, many communities only a few miles from each other ran on different times.
• 1913 - Just a decade after the Wright Brothers made the first powered flight, daredevils like Lincoln Beachey were pushing the limits of the new technology. This day he performed the first successful loop-the-loop.
• 1929 - Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd and three other explorers were the first to attain the South Pole, flying over it in a Ford Tri-Motor at 8:55 a.m.
• 1942 - The U.S. government began rationing coffee. Limits on the amount of coffee a consumer could buy would continue in effect through the end of World War II.
• 1963 - The first touch tone telephones were put into service by Western Electric as an optional replacement for the long used rotary dial systems.