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: 308766782

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: 6:29 am
• Sunset: 6:11 pm
• Local high: 57 degrees F
• Local low: 33 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were 94 degrees recorded at McAllen and Kingsville, Texas and -37 at Nikolai, Alaska

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 10564.38

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1452 - Ferdinand V - King of Spain, who with Queen Isabella, commissioned Christopher Columbus' voyages to the "New World".
• 1883 - Oscar Mayer - Chicago businessman and food processor known for creating the company that bears his name.
• 1903 - Clare Booth Luce - American playwright, member of Congress, Ambassador to Italy and one of the most influential women of the 20th Century.

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1775 - Legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone was commissioned by the Transylvania Company to blaze a trail through Cumberland Gap and create a road into Kentucky.
• 1849 - Abraham Lincoln applied for, and would later receive, a patent to assist vessels navigate shoals in rivers. He was the first President to hold a patent.
• 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call, saying to his assistant, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."
• 1913 - William Knox bowled the first perfect 300 game in tournament competition.