Announcing the arrival of
a beautiful new baby girl born at
Yreka, California . . .
Autumn Diane
Born to
Rachel and Arthur
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Autumn Diane
1:48 p.m.
Friday, August 7, 2009
18 1/2 inches
7 pounds, 13 ounces
Origin of the name Autumn: Latin
Name's original meaning: Name of the season used for a first name
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This day
in history
- Population:
- Yreka: 7,550
- U.S. population: 306,213,183
- Sunrise and sunset:
- 6:11 a.m.
- 8:21 p.m.
- Local weather:
- Yreka high: 71° F
- Yreka low: 50° F
- The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 106° at Laredo, Texas
- Low: 29 at Charleston, Nev.
- The day's Dow Jones close:
- 9,256.26
- Your dollar's worth
- Loaf of bread: $2.49
- Gallon of milk: $3.85
- Gallon of gasoline: $3.05
- First-class stamp: $0.44
- New car: $21,700.00
- Average new home: $255,000.00
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Other interesting people born on this date:
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- 1903 - Louis Leakey - Archaeologist and anthropologist whose fossil discoveries proved that man was far older than had previously been believed and that human evolution was centered in Africa.
- 1876 - Mata Hari - French dancer, courtesan and double agent for France and Germany whose name has become the symbol of the seductress spy.
- 1860 - Grandma Moses - American artist who, at the age of 78, took up painting and became popular world-wide for her depictions of 19th and 20th Century rural American life.
- Other notable events
on this day in history:
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1974 - To the amazement of thousands of onlookers, French stuntman Philippe Petit crossed between the two towers of New York's World Trade Center on a tightrope, some 1350 feet above the streets below.
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1959 - U.S. satellite, Explorer 6, transmitted the first photos of the Earth from space.
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1782 - By order of General George Washington, the Military Order of the Purple Heart honoring those wounded in combat, was founded.
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