Announcing the arrival of
a beautiful new baby girl born at
Yreka, California . . .
Ariel Elizabeth
Born to
Rebeca and Raymond
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Ariel Elizabeth
8:18 a.m.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
19 inches
7 pounds, 3 ounces
Origin of the name Ariel: Hebrew
Name's original meaning: "God's Lioness"
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This day
in history
- Population:
- Yreka: 7,550
- U.S. population: 306,512,283
- Sunrise and sunset:
- 7:30 a.m.
- 6:20 p.m.
- Local weather:
- Yreka high: 69° F
- Yreka low: 40° F
- The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 103° at Laredo, Texas
- Low: 8 at Northway, Alaska
- The day's Dow Jones close:
- 10,041.48
- 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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- 1833 - Alfred Nobel -Swedish chemist and entrepreneur who invented dynamite and other, explosives and who used some of the fortune they brought him to found the Nobel Prizes.
- 1772 - Samuel Coleridge - English poet most remembered for his classic tale, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
- 1736 - William Shippen, Jr. - First physician to offer courses in anatomy, surgery, and obstetrics in the United States and to open a maternity hospital in America.
- Other notable events
on this day in history:
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1879 - Thomas Edison successfully tested an incandescent electric light following 13 months of research and thousands of experiments.
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1805 - In one of the greatest sea battles of all time, The Battle of Trafalgar, the British fleet, under Admiral Horatio Nelson, defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets.
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1797 - One of the U.S. Navy's first warships, the Frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston. Known as "Old Ironsides", she is the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy.
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