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Origin of the name Westin
Old English - "Western settlement"
Sunday, October 11, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 7:49 a.m.
and set at 6:56 p.m.
Missoula High: 30 Missoula Low: 11 The nation's weather extremes were 95 recorded at Brooksville, Punta Gorda, and Winter Haven, Fla. and -10 recorded at Polebridge, Mont.
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 306,472,403
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 9,864.94 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:
1925 - Elmore Leonard - American author of intelligent and fun mystery novels including "Get Shorty", "Maximum Bob", "Rum Punch" and others.
1906 - Charles Revson -American entrepreneur who built the world's largest cosmetic and fragrance company, Revlon, which offered more than 3,000 different products.
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady of the United States, wife of President Franklin Roosevelt and United Nations delegate under President Truman.
1884 - Henry Heinz - Founder of the H.J. Heinz company, the largest producer of pickles, vinegar, and ketchup in the United States.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1984 - American astronaut Kathryn Sullivan stepped from the confines of the space shuttle to become the first woman to ever walk in space.
1968 - Astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Apollo 7 spacecraft, the first manned mission of the Apollo series.
1938 - James Slayter and John Thomas of Newark, Ohio, received patents for fiberglass and the machinery to manufacture it.
