Announcing the arrival of
a beautiful new baby girl born at
Yreka, California . . .
Dahlia Marie Rose
Born to
Melissa and Ryan
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Dahlia Marie Rose
8:59 p.m.
Monday, August 17, 2009
20 inches
6 pounds, 11 ounces
Origin of the name Dahlia: Scandinavian
Name's original meaning: "Valley", Also a beautiful flower
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This day
in history
- Population:
- Yreka: 7,550
- U.S. population: 306,253,063
- Sunrise and sunset:
- 6:21 a.m.
- 8:07 p.m.
- Local weather:
- Yreka high: 94° F
- Yreka low: 47° F
- The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 114° at Death Valley, California
- Low: 27 at Big Piney and Cora, Wyo.
- The day's Dow Jones close:
- 9,135.34
- Your dollar's worth
- Loaf of bread: $2.49
- Gallon of milk: $3.85
- Gallon of gasoline: $3.23
- 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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- 1943 - Robert DeNiro - Powerful Academy Award-winning actor who starred in "Raging Bull", "The Godfather II", "Taxi Driver", "Cape Fear", and many more."
- 1893 - Mae West - Comedic actress and one of the most popular performers of her generation known for roles in early film classics "My Little Chicadee", "I'm No Angel", and others.
- 1882 - Samuel Goldwyn - Academy Award-winning movie producer and the "G" in one of the grandest movie studios of all-time, MGM.
- 1786 - Davy Crockett - American legendary frontiersman, soldier, scout, Congressman, and defender of the Alamo.
- Other notable events
on this day in history:
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1978 - Ben Abruzzon, Larry Newman and Maxie Leroy Anderson landed their balloon, Double Eagle II, in Paris, thus completing the first successful balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
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1933 - Lou Gehrig set a major league baseball record by playing in his 1,308th straight game, his would be one of the longest standing records, standing until 1995.
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1807 - Robert Fulton's famous steamboat, the Clermont, set upon its first trip up the Hudson River.
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