Announcing the arrival of
a beautiful new baby girl born at
Yreka, California . . .
Paige Lynn
Born to
Krystal and Jason
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Paige Lynn
2 00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
19 1/2 inches
6 pounds, 12 ounces
Origin of the name Paige: French
Name's original meaning: Helpful, Young attendant
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This day
in history
- Population:
- Yreka: 7,550
- U.S. population: 306,508,295
- Sunrise and sunset:
- 7:29 a.m.
- 6:21 p.m.
- Local weather:
- Yreka high: 59° F
- Yreka low: 34° F
- The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 103° at Laredo, Texas
- Low: 8 at Northway, Alaska
- The day's Dow Jones close:
- 10,092.19
- Your dollar's worth
- Loaf of bread: $2.49
- Gallon of milk: $3.85
- Gallon of gasoline: $3.29
- 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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- 1931 - Mickey Mantle - Baseball Hall of Famer, three-time most valuable player, one of the game's heaviest hitters and most popular players of all time.
- 1905 - Frederick Dannay - Co-author, with Cousin Manfred Lee, of the classic detective stories featuring master detective Ellery Queen.
- 1884 - Bela Lugosi - Actor who introduced movie audiences to one of the most frightening characters of all time, Count Dracula in the 1931 classic of the same name.
- 1632 - Sir Christopher Wren - English astronomer, mathematician and the greatest architect of his time, credited with the design of 53 London churches including St. Paul's Cathedral.
- Other notable events
on this day in history:
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1929 - America's first community hospital was organized this date in Elk City, Oklahoma.
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1803 - The U.S. Senate ratified the purchase of an 828,000 square mile parcel of land from France known as the Louisiana Purchase. The cost was a little less than three cents per acre.
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