Announcing the arrival of
a beautiful new baby boy born at
Yreka, California . . .
Ethaniel Noel
Born to
Amanda and John
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Ethaniel Noel
12:57 p.m.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
19 3/4 inches
6 pounds, 3 ounces
Origin of the name Ethaniel: Hebrew
Name's original meaning: "Strong; firm"
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This day
in history
- Population:
- Yreka: 7,550
- U.S. population: 306,300,919
- Sunrise and sunset:
- 6:34 a.m.
- 7:48 p.m.
- Local weather:
- Yreka high: 91° F
- Yreka low: 50° F
- The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 121° at Death Valley, California
- Low: 26 at Bettles, Alaska
- The day's Dow Jones close:
- 9,544.20
- 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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- 1915 - Ingrid Bergman - Beautiful and popular Academy Award-winning actress who achieved immortality playing the female lead in the movie classic, "Casablanca".
- 1876 - Charles F. Kettering - American engineer and co-founder of Delco. His inventions included the first electric cash register and the electric starter for automobiles, first installed on the 1912 Cadillac.
- 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes - American physician, poet, and humorist. He was largely responsible for marshaling public opinion for saving America's oldest warship, the USS Constitution, from destruction.
- Other notable events
on this day in history:
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1972 - Amazing American athlete Mark Spitz won the first of his seven Olympic Gold Medals finishing the 200-meter butterfly in a world record two minutes, seven tenths second.
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1963 - Civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., stirred a quarter million followers as he delivered his most famous speech, entitled "I Have a Dream", at the Lincoln Memorial.
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1907 - Jim Casey and Claude Ryan of Seattle, Washington, started a local delivery service called the American Messenger Company. Today it is known as UPS.
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1885 - John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in the first prize fight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules.
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