Market Basket:

• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.85
• First Class Stamp: $0.44
• Gallon of gasoline: $2.92
• New Car: $21750.00
• Average New Home: $265000.00
• Hospital Room: $0.00

Populations:

• Redding: 78490
• U.S. Population: 306619959

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: 6:59 am
• Sunset: 4:50 pm
• Local high: 52 degrees F
• Local low: 31 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were 86 degrees recorded at Pembroke Pines, Fla., and Riverside, California and -45 at Tanana, Alaska

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 10406.96

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1906 - Soichiro Honda - Japanese entrepreneur and industrialist who founded the Honda Motor Company in 1948 with only $1500.
• 1930 - Bob Mathias - American athlete who won consecutive Olympic Gold Medals in the decathlon in 1948 and 1952. Later he became a U.S. Congressman.
• 1944 - Danny DeVito - Greatly popular American actor who starred in dozens of movies including "Romancing the Stone", "Batman Returns", "Twins", and many more.

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1800 - The United States Congress convened for the first time in Washington, D.C., in the then uncompleted Capitol building.
• 1869 - One of the world's most important waterways, the 101 mile Suez Canal that connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, opened for business.