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Announcing the arrival of a beautiful new baby girl born at
Yreka, California . . .

Cryssiny Evelyn

Born to Crystal and David
Cryssiny Evelyn
4:29 p.m.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
19 1/4 inches
7 pounds, 0 ounces
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This day in history
Population:
Yreka: 7,550
U.S. population: 306,428,535
Sunrise and sunset:
7:07 a.m.
6:53 p.m.
Local weather:
Yreka high: 59° F
Yreka low: 35° F
The nation's weather extremes:
High: 118° at Death Valley, California
Low: 30 at Eagle, Alaska
The day's Dow Jones close:
9,742.20
Your dollar's worth
Loaf of bread: $2.49
Gallon of milk: $3.85
Gallon of gasoline: $3.31
First-class stamp: $0.44
New car: $21,700.00
Average new home: $255,000.00
Other interesting people born on this date:
1924 - Truman Capote - American author and playwright known principally for the play, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and the powerful novel, "In Cold Blood."
1882 - Hans Geiger - German scientist who developed the first successful detector of various forms of radiation, known as the Geiger Counter.
1861 - William Wrigley, Jr. - American salesman who built the Wrigley chewing gum dynasty, owned the Chicago Cubs and developed Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California.
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1947 - The New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5 to 3 in the first televised World Series game.
1927 - Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hit a record 60th home run in a single season. His record would stand until Roger Maris hit his 61st, 34 years later.
1787 - The American merchant ship, Columbia, sailed out of Boston Harbor on what would become a 3 year, 42,000 mile journey around the world, the first ship to circumnavigate the globe under the American flag.