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Origin of the name Kellen
Irish - "Mighty warrior"
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 7:42 a.m.
and set at 7:05 p.m.
Missoula High: 60 Missoula Low: 22 The nation's weather extremes were 102 recorded at Laredo, Texas and 6 recorded at Daniel, Wyo.
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 306,452,463
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 9,599.75 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:
1914 - Thor Heyerdahl - Norwegian adventurer who led the "Kon-Tiki" transpacific rafting expedition designed to prove the possibility of transoceanic migrations of early peoples.
1866 - Reginald Fessenden - American inventor who broadcast the first known radio program in the U.S. on Christmas Eve, 1906
1846 - George Westinghouse - American inventor of railway braking systems, founder of Westinghouse Corporation, and chief figure in establishing alternating electrical current as America's standard.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1945 - Chicago Cubs fan and tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis purchased two box seat tickets for Game 4 of the World Series for about $14 - one for himself the other for his goat. When he and the goat were ejected from the stadium he purportedly placed a curse on the Cubs that they would never win another World Series. The curse has held for more than 60 years.
1866 - America's first train robbery took place as the Reno Gang of Southern Illinois held up the Ohio & Mississippi train, getting away with about $13,000 in gold and bank notes.
