Market Basket:

• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.85
• First Class Stamp: $0.44
• Gallon of gasoline: $3.04
• New Car: $21750.00
• Average New Home: $265000.00

Populations:

• Redding: 78490
• U.S. Population: 306324847

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: 6:40 am
• Sunset: 7:36 pm
• Local high: 96 degrees F
• Local low: 60 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were 118 degrees recorded at Death Valley, California and 30 at Eagle, Alaska

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9344.61

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1803 - Sarah Polk - First Lady and official secretary to President James K. Polk, who banished dancing and liquor from the White House.
• 1866 - Simon Lake - American inventor who pioneered the development of submarines. His was the first submarine to be successfully used in the open sea, the Argonaut, built in 1897.
• 1949 - Tom Watson - Golfing great and winner of seven major golf titles including two Masters, one U.S. Open and five British Opens.

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson, working for the Dutch East India Company, made the first recorded European sighting of the island of Manhattan.
• 1886 - Legendary Apache chief Geronimo gave up his long-standing fight with the U.S. Army by surrendering to General Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona. It ended the last major U.S.-Indian conflict.
• 1896 - Realizing that digging gold out of the ground wasn't the only way to get rich, entrepreneurs delivered the first beefsteak to Circle City, Alaska, during the Klondike gold rush, it sold for $48 a pound.