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Origin of the name Lucille
French - "Light"
Monday, October 19, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 8:00 a.m.
and set at 6:41 p.m.
Missoula High: 50 Missoula Low: 36 The nation's weather extremes were 103 recorded at Laredo, Texas and 8 recorded at Northway, Alaska
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 306,504,307
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 10,092.19 Montana's minimum wage was $6.90
Your dollar's worth
Loaf of bread: $2.49
Gallon of milk: $3.85
Gallon of gasoline: $2.60
First Class stamp: $0.44
New home:
$201,000.00
Other interesting people
born on this date:
1931 - John Le Carre - Popular English author of realistic spy novels including "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "The Russia House" and others.
1885 - Charles E. Merrill - American financier who guided his company through a series of mergers that resulted in giant stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch.
1810 - Cassius Marcellus Clay - American politician and newspaper publisher and antislavery leader despite being raised the son of a slaveowner.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1941 - Inventor Palmer Putnam helped shine the light on alternate forms of energy production as his wind turbine to generate electricity was set in motion at Grandpa's Knob, Vermont.
1781 - British General Cornwallis surrendered his army to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the American War of Independence.
