Market Basket:

• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.85
• First Class Stamp: $0.44
• Gallon of gasoline: $3.02
• New Car: $21750.00
• Average New Home: $265000.00
• Hospital Room: $0.00

Populations:

• Redding: 78490
• U.S. Population: 308762794

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: 6:30 am
• Sunset: 6:10 pm
• Local high: 52 degrees F
• Local low: 35 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were 88 degrees recorded at Laredo and Kingsville, Texas and -32 at Wainwright, Alaska

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 10552.52

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1918 - Mickey Spillane - American author of popular detective novels and creator of Mike Hammer, the model for modern fictional private eyes.
• 1934 - Yuri Gagarin - Soviet cosmonaut who, on April 12, 1961, became the first human to travel into space.
• 1943 - Bobby Fischer - Youngest chess player to become a grand master and the first American to win the World Chess Championship.

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1862 - History's first engagement between iron armored ships, the Confederacy's Monitor and Union's Merrimac ended in a draw after five hours of raging battle.
• 1880 - The international Christian religious and charitable organization known as the Salvation Army, came to the United States.
• 1976 - The first female cadets were accepted for admission to West Point Military Academy.