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Origin of the name Etta
German - "Little"
Saturday, October 24, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 8:07 a.m.
and set at 6:33 p.m.
Missoula High: 51 Missoula Low: 33
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 306,524,247
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 9,972.18 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:
1855 - James Sherman - Vice President of the United States in the administration of William Howard Taft.
1788 - Sarah Hale - American journalist and author who penned "Mary had a Little Lamb" in 1830.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1945 - The United Nations was formally established with the ratification of the U.N. Charter by the five permanent members of the Security Council and a majority of other participants.
1931 - The efforts of Elliot Ness and the "Untouchables" paid off as famed Chicago gangster, Al Capone, was sentenced to serve 11 years in federal prison for income tax evasion.
1901 - Adventurer Anna Edson Taylor began a daredevils' tradition when she fell 175 feet over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She did live to tell about it.
1861 - The Pony Express suffered a fatal blow with the initiation of the transcontinental telegraph. That first telegram was sent from California Chief Justice Stephen Johnson Field to President Lincoln.
