Market Basket:

• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.85
• First Class Stamp: $0.45
• Gallon of gasoline: $3.59
• New Car: $21750.00
• Average New Home: $320000.00
• Hospital Room: $0.00

Populations:

• Grass Valley: 13000
• U.S. Population: 312774722

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: :00 am
• Sunset: :00 pm
• Local high: 60 degrees F
• Local low: 37 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were 84 degrees recorded at Kona, Hawaii and -20 at Arctic Village, Alaska

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 13155.13

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1848 - Joel Chandler Harris - American author who told stories about Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and plantation life through his creation, wise old Uncle Remus.
• 1886 - Clarence Birdseye - American inventor who first brought small packages of frozen foods to the consumers' kitchen.
• 1898 - Emmett Kelly - His personal of "Weary Willie", a hobo clown with a bulbous nose made Kelly the best known American circus clown of the 20th Century.
• 1906 - Grace Murray Hopper - American mathematician, Navy Admiral and key member of the team that developed the first commercial electronic computer.

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1907 - The Delaware chapter of the Red Cross sold the first Christmas Seals as a fund raiser to support the fight against tuberculosis.
• 1909 - The world's first monoplane, the Walden III, was test flown this date. Its 22 horsepower motor propelled the plane to speeds of 52 miles per hour.
• 1965 - The lights went out on more than 30 million people in the Northeastern U.S. and Eastern Canada as the biggest power outage in history began at 5:16 p.m.