Announcing the arrival of
a beautiful new baby girl born at
Yreka, California . . .
Mira Leigh
Born to
Richelle and Doug
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Mira Leigh
3:46 p.m.
Monday, September 14, 2009
20 inches
7 pounds, 6 ounces
Origin of the name Mira: Latin
Name's original meaning: "Admirable"
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This day
in history
- Population:
- Yreka: 7,550
- U.S. population: 306,364,727
- Sunrise and sunset:
- 6:50 a.m.
- 7:21 p.m.
- Local weather:
- Yreka high: 75° F
- Yreka low: 53° F
- The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 118° at Death Valley, California
- Low: 30 at Eagle, Alaska
- The day's Dow Jones close:
- 9,605.41
- Your dollar's worth
- Loaf of bread: $2.49
- Gallon of milk: $3.85
- Gallon of gasoline: $3.34
- 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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- 1963 - James Andrew, Mary Ann, Mary Catherine, Mary Magdalen and Mary Margaret Fischer - Weighing in between 2.5 and 4 pounds each, they were the first American quintuplets to survive infancy.
- 1899 - Hal Wallis - American movie producer of more than 400 feature-length films, including classics, "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Dark Victory", "The Maltese Falcon" and "Casablanca".
- 1742 - James Wilson - American attorney, political theorist and member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. You will find his signature on the Declaration of Independence.
- Other notable events
on this day in history:
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1975 - Pope John XXIII performed a canonization ceremony in which Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was officially recognized as the first American born Catholic Saint.
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1959 - The Soviet spacecraft Lunik II became the first man-made object to reach the moon when it made a hard landing on the lunar surface.
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1814 - Francis Scott Key authored the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry" while detained aboard a British ship during a War of 1812 sea-land battle. The poem became the lyrics of "The Star Spangled Banner."
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