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Origin of the name Brooks
English - "Son of Brook"
Saturday, November 7, 2009 - a day to remember
The Weather
The sun rose over Missoula at 7:28 a.m.
and set at 5:11 p.m.
Missoula High: 47 Missoula Low: 28 The nation's weather extremes were 90 recorded at Gage and West Woodward, Okla. and -16 recorded at Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska
Population
Missoula: 66,000
U.S. population: 306,580,079
In the financial world
The Dow Jones closed at 10,023.42 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:
1918 - Billy Graham - American evangelist whose crusades brought together many thousands of people at a time to hear him preach the Word of God.
1867 - Marie Currie - Amazing Polish-born French scientist who won two Nobel Prizes - one with her husband for physics, again by herself for chemistry.
1731 - Robert Rogers - American frontier soldier who commanded Rogers' Rangers during the French and Indian War and attempted early explorations of the west.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1922 - Winnifred Huck was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, marking the first time that a mom had achieved that post.
1874 - The Republican party's logo, the elephant, was seen for the first time in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in the New York magazine "Harper's Weekly."
1805 - Eighteen months after leaving St. Louis, the Lewis and Clark expedition of discovery first sighted the Pacific Ocean.
