Market Basket:

• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.85
• First Class Stamp: $0.44
• Gallon of gasoline: $2.81
• New Car: $21750.00
• Average New Home: $265000.00

Populations:

• Redding: 78490
• U.S. Population: 306197231

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: 6:09 am
• Sunset: 8:22 pm
• Local high: 95 degrees F
• Local low: 64 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were 116 degrees recorded at Death Valley, California and 30 at Gulkana, Alaska

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9171.61

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1900 - Ernie Pyle - Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent whose reports of World War II action from both European and Pacific Theaters provided most Americans their closest link to the war.
• 1900 - John T. Scopes - Tennessee teacher who was convicted of teaching the theory of evolution in a high school in one of the most publicized trials of the 20th Century.
• 1924 - Leon Uris - American author who captured much of the Jewish peoples fight for survival in his best selling novels Exodus, QBVII and Trinity.
• 1926 - Tony Bennett - Grammy Award winning singer whose 50 year entertainment career is most closely identified with the song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1492 - Christopher Columbus and his small fleet of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria left Spain in search of a western passage to the "Indies" that resulted in the European discovery of the Americas.
• 1923 - Vice President Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as 30th President of the United States.
• 1933 - The first Mickey Mouse watches became available on the market selling for $2.75.
• 1949 - The National Basketball League and America Basketball League merged to create the NBA (National Basketball Association).