MacIe Ellen |
Anna
and Joel have chosen the name
MacIe Ellen
for their beautiful new daughter born at the Birth Center of River Falls Hospital.
Weight: 7 pounds and 5 ounces
Length: 20 4/5 inches
Time: 2:03 pm
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009
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| Origin of the name MacIe... |
 | Old French - "Matthew's estate". |
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August 6, 2009 - a day to remember |
| The Weather |
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The sun rose over River Falls at 6:02 am
and set at 8:30 pm
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River Falls high: 80° F
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River Falls low: 55° F
| | The nation's weather extremes were 114° recorded at Bullhead City, Ariz. and 35° at Embarrass, Minn.
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| | In the financial world |
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The Dow Jones closed at
9280.97 | |
Wisconsin's Minimum Wage was $6.50 |
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Loaf of Bread:$ 2.49 | |
Gallon of Milk: $ 3.85 | |
First Class Stamp: $0.44 | |
Average New Home: $169,000.00 | |
New Car: $21,750.00 |
| | Populations: |
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River Falls : 12,650 | |
U.S. Population: 307,905,374 |
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| | MacIe Ellen shares
her
birthday with these other interesting people
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1881 - Sir Alexander Fleming - Nobel Prize winning Scottish scientist whose discovery of penicillin in 1928 paved the way for antibiotic therapy for infectious disease and saved countless lives. |
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1911 - Lucille Ball - American comedienne whose 1950's, "I Love Lucy" TV series, cast the mold for situation comedies far into the future. |
| | There have been some other notable events on this day in history |
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1948 - At age 17, American athlete Bob Mathias earned the title of world's greatest athlete by winning the decathlon at the Olympic Games held in London, England. | |
1969 - Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell made baseball history as he hit the first fair ball to sail out of Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium. His homerun measured 506 feet from home plate. | |
1996 - NASA administrators announced primitive life-form fossils had been discovered in a 4.5 billion year old meteorite from Mars, providing the first evidence of life on another planet. |
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