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Origin of the name Bryson
Welsh - "Son of Brice"
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 7:34 a.m.
and set at 7:17 p.m.
Missoula High: 51 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: 306,428,535
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 9,712.28 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:
1924 - Truman Capote - American author and playwright known principally for the play, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and the powerful novel, "In Cold Blood."
1882 - Hans Geiger - German scientist who developed the first successful detector of various forms of radiation, known as the Geiger Counter.
1861 - William Wrigley, Jr. - American salesman who built the Wrigley chewing gum dynasty, owned the Chicago Cubs and developed Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1947 - The New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5 to 3 in the first televised World Series game.
1927 - Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hit a record 60th home run in a single season. His record would stand until Roger Maris hit his 61st, 34 years later.
1787 - The American merchant ship, Columbia, sailed out of Boston Harbor on what would become a 3 year, 42,000 mile journey around the world, the first ship to circumnavigate the globe under the American flag.
