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Kimberly
and Shaun
have chosen the names
Willow Julianna Virtue and Wynter Anna Mae Noble
for their beautiful new daughters born at Enloe Medical Center.
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Willow
Name's origin: English;
Name's original meaning: "Willow tree"
Weight: 6 pounds, 15 ounces
Length: 18 inches
Time: 3:44 p.m.
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Sign her baby book.
Wynter
Name's origin: Old English;
Name's original meaning: Season name
Weight: 6 pounds, 7 ounces Length: 19 inches
Time: 3:55 p.m. Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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This day
in history
Population :
- Chico: 69,000
- U.S. population: 289,033,775
Sunrise and sunset:
Local weather:
- Chico, Calif. high: 63° F
- Chico, Calif. low: 55° F
The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 96° F at Edinburg and McAllen, Texas
- Low: 13° F at Hibbing, Minn.
The day's Dow Jones close:
Your dollar's worth
- Loaf of bread: $2.49
- Gallon of milk: $3.85
- Gallon of gasoline: $2.90
- First-class stamp: $0.44
- New car: $21,750.00
- Average new home: $331,000.00
Other interesting people
born on this date:
- 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.
- 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.
- 1962 - Jerry Rice - San Francisco '49er wide receiver, record holder for most touchdowns, and arguably the best football player of all time.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
- 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.
- 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.
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