Market Basket:

• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.85
• First Class Stamp: $0.44
• Gallon of gasoline: $2.87
• New Car: $21750.00
• Average New Home: $265000.00

Populations:

• Redding: 78490
• U.S. Population: 306141399

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: 5:56 am
• Sunset: 8:35 pm
• Local high: 106 degrees F
• Local low: 72 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were 125 degrees recorded at Death Valley, California and 31 at Stanley, Idaho

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 8743.94

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1836 - Sir Thomas Allbutt - English physician and inventor of the modern clinical thermometer which replaced the foot-long unit that required 20 minutes to record a person's temperature.
• 1894 - Errett Lobban Cord - American automotive innovator who produced the exceptional Dusenberg cars and the first popular front-wheel drive car, the Cord L-29.
• 1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary - New Zealand adventurer who, with the Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay, became the first to achieve the summit of the world's highest mount, 29,028 foot Mount Everest.

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1841 - Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered to be the first modern detective story, was published.
• 1942 - A new branch of America's armed forces was initiated as the first member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
• 1969 - One of history's great adventures culminated as astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon .
• 1985 - Treasure hunter Mel Fisher began to reap the rewards of years of searching as his team began recovering more than $400 million in coins, jewels, gold and silver from the wreck of the Spanish galleon "Nuestra Senora de la Atocha" off the coast of Key West, Florida in 1622.