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Origin of the name Michael
English, Hebrew - Who is like God
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 8:01 a.m.
and set at 6:39 p.m.
Missoula High: 55 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: 306,508,295
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 - Mickey Mantle - Baseball Hall of Famer, three-time most valuable player, one of the game's heaviest hitters and most popular players of all time.
1905 - Frederick Dannay - Co-author, with Cousin Manfred Lee, of the classic detective stories featuring master detective Ellery Queen.
1884 - Bela Lugosi - Actor who introduced movie audiences to one of the most frightening characters of all time, Count Dracula in the 1931 classic of the same name.
1632 - Sir Christopher Wren - English astronomer, mathematician and the greatest architect of his time, credited with the design of 53 London churches including St. Paul's Cathedral.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1929 - America's first community hospital was organized this date in Elk City, Oklahoma.
1803 - The U.S. Senate ratified the purchase of an 828,000 square mile parcel of land from France known as the Louisiana Purchase. The cost was a little less than three cents per acre.
