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Jaiden |
Heather and Philip have chosen the name Jaiden for their beautiful new boy
born at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
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- Birth Statistics
- Weight: 6 pounds and 13 ounces
- Length: 20 1/2 inches
- Time: 6:50 a.m.
- Date: Monday, August 24, 2009
- Origin of the name Jaiden
- Hebrew - "God has heard"
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Monday, August 24, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . .
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The Weather:
 The sun rose over Lane County at 6:27 a.m.
and set at 8:02 p.m.
- Local high: 84
- Local low: 41
- The nation's weather extremes were 110 at Ocotillo Wells, California and 24 at Seneca, Ore.
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In the financial world
- The Dow Jones closed at 9,505.96
- Minimum Wage was $8.40
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and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
- Loaf of bread: $2.49
- Gallon of milk: $3.85
- Average New Home: $239,000.00
- New Car: $21,750.00
- Gallon of gasoline: $2.83
- First class stamp: $0.44
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Populations:
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Eugene/Springfield 185,160
- U.S. Population: 306,280,979
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Jaiden shares his birthday with these other interesting people
- 1880 - Joshua Lionel Cowen - American inventor of the electric toy train and founder of the Lionel Company.
1890 - Duke Kahanamoku - Hawaiian swimming legend who won five Olympic medals, including three gold in three Olympics over a 12 year period.
1960 - Cal Ripken, Jr. - The iron-man of baseball. Baltimore Orioles shortstop who holds the record for the most consecutive games played.
- There have been some other notable events on this day in history
- 1814 - British forces captured Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol, White House and other government buildings in revenge for earlier burnings of Canadian government buildings by U.S. troops.
1891 - Thomas Edison received one of his more than 1,000 patents, this one for the motion picture camera.
1932 - Amelia Earhart left Los Angeles on the first transcontinental nonstop flight by a woman. She landed 19 hours later, 2600 miles away in Newark, New Jersey.
Happy Birthday
Jaiden
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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