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Origin of the name Kannon
French - "Official of the church"
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 8:13 a.m.
and set at 6:26 p.m.
Missoula High: 39 Missoula Low: 32 The nation's weather extremes were 103 recorded at Laredo, Texas and 8 recorded at Northway, Alaska
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 306,540,199
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 9,762.69 Montana's minimum wage was $6.90
Your dollar's worth
Loaf of bread: $2.49
Gallon of milk: $3.85
Gallon of gasoline: $2.59
First Class stamp: $0.44
New home:
$201,000.00
Other interesting people
born on this date:
1949 - Bruce Jenner - American athlete who achieved the unofficial title of "World's Greatest Athlete" by winning the Olympic Decathlon Gold Medal in 1976.
1914 - Dr. Jonas Salk - American scientist and physician whose anti-polio vaccine saved countless children from the miseries of the affliction.
1793 - Eliphalet Remington - American inventor and firearms maker who built the Remington Arms Company.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1949 - Eugenia Moore Anderson took the oath of office to become U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, the first female Ambassador from the United States.
1929 - Mrs. T.W. Evans became the first to give birth in an airplane as she delivered a bouncing baby girl in a plane over Miami, Florida.
1929 - In what was probably the toughest day in the history of the American economy, the stock market crashed, fortunes were lost and the country headed into the Great Depression.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship to the people of America from the people of France, was dedicated at its site on Ellis Island by President Grover Cleveland.
