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Origin of the name Nathaniel
Hebrew - "Gift of God."
Friday, November 6, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 7:26 a.m.
and set at 5:13 p.m.
Missoula High: 58 Missoula Low: 33 The nation's weather extremes were 91 recorded at Canadian, Texas and -10 recorded at Anaktuvuk Pass and Bettles, Alaska
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 306,576,091
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 10,005.96 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:
1892 - John William Alcock - British aviator, who with Arthur Brown, made the first nonstop transatlantic flight in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh's famous solo flight.
1861 - James Naismith - Canadian-American physical-education director who, in 1891, invented the game of basketball.
1854 - John Philip Sousa - American composer known as "The March King" for military marches "Stars and Stripes Forever", "Semper Fidelis", and many others.
1851 - Charles Henry Dow - American journalist and inventor who developed the system of stock market analysis that has become the Dow Jones stock averages.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1928 - Jacob Schick received a patent for the first electric razor.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th President of the United States.
