Menolly Rose|
Melissa
and John
have chosen the name
Menolly Rose
for their beautiful new daughter born at Enloe Medical Center.
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Weight: 8 pounds, 3 ounces
Length: 20 1/4 inches
Time: 1:59 p.m.
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Sign her baby book.
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This day
in history
Population :
- Chico: 69,000
- U.S. population: 289,005,859
Sunrise and sunset:
Local weather:
- Chico, Calif. high: 78° F
- Chico, Calif. low: 50° F
The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 102° F at Laredo, Texas
- Low: 6° F at Daniel, Wyo.
The day's Dow Jones close:
Your dollar's worth
- Loaf of bread: $2.49
- Gallon of milk: $3.85
- Gallon of gasoline: $2.99
- First-class stamp: $0.44
- New car: $21,750.00
- Average new home: $331,000.00
Other interesting people
born on this date:
- 1846 - George Westinghouse - American inventor of railway braking systems, founder of Westinghouse Corporation, and chief figure in establishing alternating electrical current as America's standard.
- 1866 - Reginald Fessenden - American inventor who broadcast the first known radio program in the U.S. on Christmas Eve, 1906
- 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl - Norwegian adventurer who led the "Kon-Tiki" transpacific rafting expedition designed to prove the possibility of transoceanic migrations of early peoples.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
- 1866 - America's first train robbery took place as the Reno Gang of Southern Illinois held up the Ohio & Mississippi train, getting away with about $13,000 in gold and bank notes.
- 1945 - Chicago Cubs fan and tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis purchased two box seat tickets for Game 4 of the World Series for about $14 - one for himself the other for his goat. When he and the goat were ejected from the stadium he purportedly placed a curse on the Cubs that they would never win another World Series. The curse has held for more than 60 years.
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