Xander Phillip|
Nicole
and Bill
have chosen the name
Xander Phillip
for their beautiful new son born at Enloe Medical Center.
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Xander
Name's origin: Greek;
Name's original meaning: Root: Alexander - "Defender of mankind."
Weight: 6 pounds, 12 ounces
Length: 21 inches
Time: 12:25 a.m.
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Sign his baby book.
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This day
in history
Population :
- Chico: 69,000
- U.S. population: 289,065,679
Sunrise and sunset:
Local weather:
- Chico, Calif. high: 72° F
- Chico, Calif. low: 51° F
The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 103° F at Laredo, Texas
- Low: 8° F at Northway, Alaska
The day's Dow Jones close:
Your dollar's worth
- Loaf of bread: $2.49
- Gallon of milk: $3.85
- Gallon of gasoline: $2.86
- First-class stamp: $0.44
- New car: $21,750.00
- Average new home: $331,000.00
Other interesting people
born on this date:
- 1736 - William Shippen, Jr. - First physician to offer courses in anatomy, surgery, and obstetrics in the United States and to open a maternity hospital in America.
- 1772 - Samuel Coleridge - English poet most remembered for his classic tale, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
- 1833 - Alfred Nobel -Swedish chemist and entrepreneur who invented dynamite and other, explosives and who used some of the fortune they brought him to found the Nobel Prizes.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
- 1797 - One of the U.S. Navy's first warships, the Frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston. Known as "Old Ironsides", she is the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy.
- 1805 - In one of the greatest sea battles of all time, The Battle of Trafalgar, the British fleet, under Admiral Horatio Nelson, defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets.
- 1879 - Thomas Edison successfully tested an incandescent electric light following 13 months of research and thousands of experiments.
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