Gabriella

The Klamath Basin is blessed with the arrival of a baby girl!

The Staff of Sky Lakes Medical Center add our congratulations and very best wishes to Raquel on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Gabriella .

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 4.6 ounces

Length: 20 3/4

Time: 1:58 a.m.

Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Delivered by: Gabriel Mayland, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: Gabriel Mayland, M.D.

Origin of the name Gabriella . . .

Hebrew - "God is my strength"

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 62

Local low: 31

The nation's weather extremes were 102 recorded at nationHighLocation and 6 recorded at Daniel, Wyo.

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:10 a.m. and set at 6:40 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,599.75

and the Minimum Wage was $8.40

A market basket of consumer prices looked like this . . .

Loaf of Bread: $2.49

Gallon of milk: $3.85

First class stamp: $0.44

Average new $201,000.00

New Car: $21,750.00

Populations . .

Klamath Basin Population: 71,000

U.S. Population: 306,452,463

Gabriella shares her birthday with these other interesting people . . .

1914 - Thor Heyerdahl - Norwegian adventurer who led the "Kon-Tiki" transpacific rafting expedition designed to prove the possibility of transoceanic migrations of early peoples.

1866 - Reginald Fessenden - American inventor who broadcast the first known radio program in the U.S. on Christmas Eve, 1906

1846 - George Westinghouse - American inventor of railway braking systems, founder of Westinghouse Corporation, and chief figure in establishing alternating electrical current as America's standard.

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

1945 - Chicago Cubs fan and tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis purchased two box seat tickets for Game 4 of the World Series for about $14 - one for himself the other for his goat. When he and the goat were ejected from the stadium he purportedly placed a curse on the Cubs that they would never win another World Series. The curse has held for more than 60 years.

1866 - America's first train robbery took place as the Reno Gang of Southern Illinois held up the Ohio & Mississippi train, getting away with about $13,000 in gold and bank notes.