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Jennifer and David have
chosen the names
Nolan Keith and Aspyn June
for their beautiful new twins
born at Community Medical Center
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 7:51 a.m.
and set at 6:52 p.m.
Missoula High: 46
Missoula Low: 21
The nation's weather extremes were 96 recorded at Edinburg and McAllen, Texas and 13 recorded at Hibbing, Minn.
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 306,480,379
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 9,885.80
Montana's minimum wage was $6.90
Your dollar's worth
Loaf of bread: $2.49
Gallon of milk: $3.85
Gallon of gasoline: $2.62
First Class stamp: $0.44
New home:
$201,000.00
Other interesting people
born on this date:
1962 - Jerry Rice - San Francisco '49er wide receiver, record holder for most touchdowns, and arguably the best football player of all time.
1925 - Margaret Thatcher - "The Iron Lady" She was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain and the most powerful woman of the 20th Century.
1754 - Molly Pitcher - An American Revolutionary War hero, honored for bravery at the battle of Monmouth where she carried water to injured colonial fighters and replaced her exhausted husband manning a cannon.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1792 - The cornerstone for the first federal building in Washington, D.C., the White House, was laid. The executive mansion would be first inhabited eight years later by President John Adams.
1775 - The U.S. Navy was born as the second Continental Congress authorized a newly formed marine committee to acquire ships and control naval affairs.
