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Origin of the name Taylor
English, Middle English - from an occupational surname converted to a first name
Thursday, October 8, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 7:45 a.m.
and set at 7:02 p.m.
Missoula High: 50 Missoula Low: 22 The nation's weather extremes were 101 recorded at Laredo, Texas and 7 recorded at Lake Yellowstone, Wyo.
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 306,460,439
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 9,786.87 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:
1922 - Dr. Christiaan Barnard - South African surgical pioneer who performed the first successful heart transplant in 1967.
1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker - Fighter pilot, industrialist, and the most celebrated American air ace of World War I having won 26 air victories in Europe.
1869 - J. Frank Duryea- Inventor who, with brother Charles, of one of the first automobiles and the first to be built and operated in the United States - in September, 1893.
1846 - Elbert Henry Gary - American lawyer and first chairman and CEO of U.S. Steel who introduced employee stock ownership, profit sharing and safe working conditions.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1956 - New York Yankee pitcher Donald Larsen, recorded the first ever perfect world series game, no hits, no runs and no walks in a 2 - 1 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1890 - In one of history's most incredible solo military actions, U.S. Army foot-soldier Alvin York single-handedly took out a German machine gun emplacement, killed 25 enemy soldiers and captured 132.
