Announcing the arrival of
a beautiful new baby boy born at
Yreka, California . . .
Jacob Beau
Born to
Tiffany and Beau
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Jacob Beau
7:56 p.m.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
19 inches
7 pounds, 12 ounces
Origin of the name Jacob: English, Hebrew
Name's original meaning: Supplanter
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This day
in history
- Population:
- Yreka: 7,550
- U.S. population: 306,292,943
- Sunrise and sunset:
- 6:32 a.m.
- 7:52 p.m.
- Local weather:
- Yreka high: 94° F
- Yreka low: 45° F
- The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 118° at Death Valley, California
- Low: 25 at Chandalar Lake, Alaska
- The day's Dow Jones close:
- 9,580.63
- Your dollar's worth
- Loaf of bread: $2.49
- Gallon of milk: $3.85
- Gallon of gasoline: $3.24
- 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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- 1908 - Lyndon Baines Johnson - Powerful Senate Majority Leader, Vice-President under John F. Kennedy and 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
- 1899 - C.S. Forester - Historical novelist who is best known for his 12 novel seris that portrayed the career and adventures of fictitious British naval officer, Horatio Hornblower.
- 1865 - Charles Gates Dawes - A man of many interests; 30th Vice-President, attorney, author, musical composer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient for his work reconstructing Europe after World War I.
- Other notable events
on this day in history:
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1912 - The world was introduced to "Tarzan" as Edgar Rice Burroughs published his first book about the jungle hero, Tarzan of the Apes.
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1859 - Drillers near Titusville, Pennsylvania, struck oil at 69 - 1/2 feet, resulting in the first commercially successful extraction of the substance from the earth.
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