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Origin of the name Alastair
Scottish - "Defender of mankind"
Friday, February 20, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 0:00 a.m.
and set at 48:07 p.m.
Missoula High: 45 Missoula Low: 25 The nation's weather extremes were 81 recorded at Kona Airport, Hawaii and -40 recorded at Kivalina, Alaska
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 305,543,199
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 7,366.00 Montana's minimum wage was $6.90
Your dollar's worth
Loaf of bread: $2.49
Gallon of milk: $3.85
Gallon of gasoline: $1.86
First Class stamp: $0.42
New home:
$201,000.00
Other interesting people
born on this date:
1902 - Ansel Adams - Premier photographer of America's great outdoors. His books of photographs can be found in libraries and on coffee tables across this land.
1844 - Joshua Slocum - Canadian seaman and adventurer who was the first man ever recorded to sail around the world alone.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1962 - John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth in space, circling the globe aboard Friendship 7 three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
1952 - "The African Queen", starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, opened at the Capitol Theatre in New York City. Today it's considered to be a modern movie classic.
1865 - MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) established the first college of architecture in the U.S.
1792 - President George Washington signed the first Postal Service law which set postage prices based upon the distance the mail had to travel.
