Miranda Del Rio|
Maribel
and Fabian
have chosen the name
Miranda Del Rio
for their beautiful new daughter born at Enloe Medical Center.
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Miranda
Name's origin: Latin, English;
Name's original meaning: "Fit to be admired"
Weight: 6 pounds, 14 ounces
Length: 20 inches
Time: 8:47 p.m.
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Sign her baby book.
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This day
in history
Population :
- Chico: 69,000
- U.S. population: 289,013,835
Sunrise and sunset:
Local weather:
- Chico, Calif. high: 77° F
- Chico, Calif. low: 48° F
The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 101° F at Laredo, Texas
- Low: 7° F at Lake Yellowstone, 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 - Elbert Henry Gary - American lawyer and first chairman and CEO of U.S. Steel who introduced employee stock ownership, profit sharing and safe working conditions.
- 1869 - J. Frank Duryea- Inventor who, with brother Charles, of one of the first automobiles and the first to be built and operated in the United States - in September, 1893.
- 1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker - Fighter pilot, industrialist, and the most celebrated American air ace of World War I having won 26 air victories in Europe.
- 1922 - Dr. Christiaan Barnard - South African surgical pioneer who performed the first successful heart transplant in 1967.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
- 1890 - In one of history's most incredible solo military actions, U.S. Army foot-soldier Alvin York single-handedly took out a German machine gun emplacement, killed 25 enemy soldiers and captured 132.
- 1956 - New York Yankee pitcher Donald Larsen, recorded the first ever perfect world series game, no hits, no runs and no walks in a 2 - 1 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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