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Origin of the name Aeris
Greek - "Best; wise"
Monday, September 28, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 7:31 a.m.
and set at 7:21 p.m.
Missoula High: 79 Missoula Low: 39 The nation's weather extremes were 118 recorded at Death Valley, California and 30 recorded at Eagle, Alaska
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 306,420,559
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 9,665.19 Montana's minimum wage was $6.90
Your dollar's worth
Loaf of bread: $2.49
Gallon of milk: $3.85
Gallon of gasoline: $2.77
First Class stamp: $0.44
New home:
$201,000.00
Other interesting people
born on this date:
1954 - Steve Largent - Outstanding pro-football wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks who set records for most consecutive games with a reception, most yards on receptions and others. Later a U.S. Congressman.
1909 - Al Capp - Cartoonist whose newspaper comic strip, "Li'l Abner", with characters Daisy Mae, Mammy Yokum, Li'l Abner and others, delighted readers from 1934 through 1977.
1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggin - Leader of the kindergarten education movement in the United States and author of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."
1839 - Frances Willard - American political activist who founded the WTCU (World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union) in 1883, one of the forces that resulted in alcohol prohibition during the 1920's.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1910 - Optometry classes were offered for the first time in America with the introduction of a two-year course in the field at Columbia University in New York City.
1781 - Some 16,000 Colonial and French troops began the siege of Yorktown, the action that would result in the British surrender and the end to the American War of Independence.
1542 - Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed at San Diego Bay, the first European landing on the Pacific Coast and the first exploration of what is now California.
