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Adrian Isidro

Jenna and Adrian have chosen the name Adrian Isidro for their beautiful new son born at Mid-Columbia Medical Center.

3:32 a.m.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
19 1/2 inches
6 pounds, 9.6 ounces
Origin of the name Adrian: Latin, English
Name's original meaning: "Black Earth."

This day in history

Other interesting people born on this date:

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:

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.
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.
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.
1885 - John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in the first prize fight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules.


Population:

The Dalles:
11,600
U.S. population:
306,300,919

Sunrise and sunset:

Sunrise:6:23 a.m.
Sunset:7:47 p.m.

Local weather:

The Dalles high:
81° F
The Dalles low:
63° 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:
$2.91
First-class stamp:
$0.44
New car:
$21,750.00
Average new home:
$165,000.00