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Announcing the arrival of a beautiful new baby boy
born in Nampa, Idaho. . .
Patrick James
Born to
Michelle and Ryan
at 2:57 p.m. Sunday, October 8, 2006
measuring: 20 1/2 inches
and weighing 7 pounds, 8.5 ounces
Origin of the name Patrick: English, Latin
Name's original meaning: Noble man
This day
in history
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Population:
- Nampa:
- U.S. population: 284,642,987
- Sunrise and sunset:
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- Local weather:
- Nampa high: ° F
- Nampa low: ° F
- The nation's weather extremes:
- High: 93° at Harlingen, Texas
- Low: 18° at Nome, Alaska
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The day's Dow Jones close:
- 11,850.21
- Your dollar's worth
- Loaf of bread:
- Gallon of milk:
- Gallon of gasoline:
- First-class stamp:
- New car:
- Average new home:
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Other interesting people
born on this date:
- 1922 - Dr. Christiaan Barnard - South African surgical pioneer who performed the first successful heart transplant in 1967.
- 1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker - Fighter pilot, industrialist, and the most celebrated American air ace of World War I having won 26 air victories in Europe.
- 1869 - J. Frank Duryea- Inventor who, with brother Charles, of one of the first automobiles and the first to be built and operated in the United States - in September, 1893.
- 1846 - Elbert Henry Gary - American lawyer and first chairman and CEO of U.S. Steel who introduced employee stock ownership, profit sharing and safe working conditions.
- Other notable events
on this day in history:
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- 1956 - New York Yankee pitcher Donald Larsen, recorded the first ever perfect world series game, no hits, no runs and no walks in a 2 - 1 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- 1890 - In one of history's most incredible solo military actions, U.S. Army foot-soldier Alvin York single-handedly took out a German machine gun emplacement, killed 25 enemy soldiers and captured 132.
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