Market Basket:

• Loaf of Bread: $2.49
• Gallon of Milk: $3.85
• First Class Stamp: $0.44
• Gallon of gasoline: $2.70
• New Car: $21750.00
• Average New Home: $244300.00

Populations:

• Gilbert: 174000
• U.S. Population: 306292943

Today's Weather:

• Sunrise: 6:58 am
• Sunset: 7:59 pm
• Local high: 109 degrees F
• Local low: 77 degrees F
• The nation's weather extremes were 118 degrees recorded at Death Valley, California and 25 at Chandalar Lake, Alaska

Dow Jones:

• Dow Jones: 9543.52

Other Interesting People Born on this Date:

• 1865 - Charles Gates Dawes - A man of many interests; 30th Vice-President, attorney, author, musical composer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient for his work reconstructing Europe after World War I.
• 1899 - C.S. Forester - Historical novelist who is best known for his 12 novel seris that portrayed the career and adventures of fictitious British naval officer, Horatio Hornblower.
• 1908 - Lyndon Baines Johnson - Powerful Senate Majority Leader, Vice-President under John F. Kennedy and 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

Other Notable Events on this Day in History:

• 1859 - Drillers near Titusville, Pennsylvania, struck oil at 69 - 1/2 feet, resulting in the first commercially successful extraction of the substance from the earth.
• 1912 - The world was introduced to "Tarzan" as Edgar Rice Burroughs published his first book about the jungle hero, Tarzan of the Apes.