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Origin of the name Leah
Hebrew - The weary one.
Monday, October 5, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 7:40 a.m.
and set at 7:07 p.m.
Missoula High: 52 Missoula Low: 29 The nation's weather extremes were 101 recorded at Laredo, Texas and 7 recorded at Arctic Village, Alaska
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 306,448,475
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 9,487.67 Montana's minimum wage was $6.90
Your dollar's worth
Loaf of bread: $2.49
Gallon of milk: $3.85
Gallon of gasoline: $2.72
First Class stamp: $0.44
New home:
$201,000.00
Other interesting people
born on this date:
1929 - Richard Gordon, Jr. - American astronaut who piloted the Command Module during Apollo 12, the second flight to land humans on the moon.
1902 - Ray Kroc - American entrepreneur who built the McDonald's fast food empire.
1882 - Robert Goddard - American Physicist and the "Father of Modern Rocketry" who achieved the first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.
1830 - Chester A. Arthur - Twenty-first President of the United States from 1881-1885.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1970 - David Kunst completed a 14,450 mile walk across four continents that encircled the globe. It was the first verified walk around the world.
1953 - The New York Yankees clinched the World Series becoming the first baseball team to ever win five consecutive World Championships.
1947 - President Harry Truman became the first President to address the nation via television, asking citizens to help the starving in Euorope by abstaining from eating meat and poultry one day a week.
