 Samuel Emmett |
|
|
| |
Origin of the name Samuel
English, Hebrew - His name is God, God has heard
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 8:03 a.m.
and set at 6:38 p.m.
Missoula High: 46 Missoula Low: 33 The nation's weather extremes were 103 recorded at Laredo, Texas and 8 recorded at Northway, Alaska
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 306,512,283
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 10,041.48 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:
1833 - Alfred Nobel -Swedish chemist and entrepreneur who invented dynamite and other, explosives and who used some of the fortune they brought him to found the Nobel Prizes.
1772 - Samuel Coleridge - English poet most remembered for his classic tale, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
1736 - William Shippen, Jr. - First physician to offer courses in anatomy, surgery, and obstetrics in the United States and to open a maternity hospital in America.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1879 - Thomas Edison successfully tested an incandescent electric light following 13 months of research and thousands of experiments.
1805 - In one of the greatest sea battles of all time, The Battle of Trafalgar, the British fleet, under Admiral Horatio Nelson, defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets.
1797 - One of the U.S. Navy's first warships, the Frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston. Known as "Old Ironsides", she is the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy.
