Market Basket:

• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.85
• First Class Stamp: $0.42
• Gallon of gasoline: $1.75
• New Car: $21750.00
• Average New Home: $754000.00

Populations:

• Santa Cruz: 56800
• U.S. Population: 305287967

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: 7:36 am
• Sunset: 4:41 pm
• Local high: 55 degrees F
• Local low: 42 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were 85 degrees recorded at Kahului Airport, Hawaii and -45 at Chicken, Alaska

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 8824.34

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1886 - Ty Cobb - Big league baseball player, many believe to be the greatest offensive player in the history of the game compiling records of 2,244 runs, 1,959 runs batted in, 892 stolen bases and a lifetime batting average of .367 during 24 seasons.
• 1913 - Betty Grable - Actress and World War II "Pin-Up Girl" idolized by soldiers and sailors as the ideal woman of her time.
• 1947 - Steven Spielberg - American motion-picture director and producer noted for a long list of successful movies including "Jaws", "ET", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the Academy Award winning "Schindler"s List" and a long list of others.

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1787 - New Jersey becomes the third colony to achieve statehood in the United States of America.
• 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery was ratified.
• 1898 - The world's first official land speed record was recorded. Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat drove his atuomobile an amazing 39.245 m.p.h.
• 1956 - Eleven years after the end of the second World War, Japan became a member of the United Nations.