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Friday, February 15, 2008 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 0:00 a.m.
and set at 48:06 p.m.
Missoula High: 40 Missoula Low: 25 The nation's weather extremes were 89 recorded at Laredo, Texas and -27 recorded at Bethel, Alaska
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 303,866,325
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 12,348.21 Montana's minimum wage was $6.25
Your dollar's worth
Loaf of bread: $1.98
Gallon of milk: $2.95
Gallon of gasoline: $2.93
First Class stamp: $0.41
New home:
$201,000.00
Other interesting people
born on this date:
1900 - Adlai E. Stevenson - American politician who helped found the United Nations, ran twice as the Democratic candidate for the presidency and was U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. under John F. Kennedy.
1820 - Susan B. Anthony - American women's rights activist and the first woman to have her image displayed on an American coin; the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
1809 - Cyrus Hall McCormick - American inventor of the reaper, which improved farmers' wheat harvest and was important in the national move from an agrarian to an industrial society.
1797 - Henry Engelhard Steinway - German-American piano builder who founded the company that continues to build some of the world's finest pianos, Steinway and Sons.
1564 - Galileo Galilei - Italian mathematician, astronomer and thinker who was the first to use the telescope to study the stars and helped prove that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1953 - Seventeen year old Tenley Albright became the first American to win the women's world figure skating championship on this day.
1842 - Adhesive postage stamps were introduced by the City Dispatch Post Office in New York City.
1799 - The first printed election ballots were sanctioned by the state of Pennsylvania.
