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Soraya Janet

Jamison and Glarih have chosen the name Soraya Janet for their beautiful new girl born at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
Birth Statistics
Weight: 7 pounds and 2.8 ounces
Length: 20 1/2 inches
Time: 5:54 p.m.
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009

Origin of the name Soraya
Persian - "Princess"

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . .

The Weather:

The sun rose over Lane County at 7:13 a.m. and set at 4:42 p.m.
Local high: 58
Local low: 45
The nation's weather extremes were 86 at Miami, Fla., and Indio, California and -46 at Bettles, Alaska

In the financial world

The Dow Jones closed at 10,426.31
Minimum Wage was $8.40

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: $2.79
First class stamp: $0.44

Populations:

Eugene/Springfield 185,160
U.S. Population: 306,627,935

Soraya Janet shares her birthday with these other interesting people

1752 - George Rogers Clark - American Revolutionary War hero whose campaigns on the western frontiers did much to secure victory for the American Colonies.
1770 - Adam Krusentern - First Russian naval officer to explore the Pacific Ocean and circumnavigate the globe on a three year expedition beginning in 1803.
1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps - French visionary and organizer who built the Suez Canal and was in charge of the initial French project to build the Panama Canal.
1831 - James Garfield - Twentieth President of the United States.
1966 - Gail Devers - American track athlete who triumphed over grave medical problems to win the Olympic gold medal for the 100 meter dash in 1992.

There have been some other notable events on this day in history

1863 - With the words "Four score and seven years ago," Abraham Lincoln began one of the great speeches of all-time, "The Gettysburg Address," in dedication of the Civil War military cemetery in Pennsylvannia.
1916 - Pilot Ruth Law set an early flight endurance record by becoming the first to fly an airplane more than 500 miles non-stop.
1959 - One of biggest marketing blunders in history came to an end as the last Ford Motor Company Edsel rolled off the assembly line. The Edsel has since become a valuable collector's item.
1961 - A 37 pound chimpanzee named Enos blasted off from Cape Canaveral, orbited the earth twice and landed near Puerto Rico becoming the first animal to orbit the earth and return to tell about it.

Happy Birthday Soraya
 from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center