Quatrell Cortez Born: Thursday, September 17, 2009 Time: 1:47 am Weight: 7 pounds and 5 ounces Length: 20 inches Mom: Quantay

September 17, 2009 - a day to remember The Weather The sun rose over Topeka at 7:06 am and set at 7:28 pm Topeka high: 79° F Topeka low: 52° F The nation's weather extremes were 118° recorded at Death Valley, California and 30° at Eagle, Alaska

In the financial world The Dow Jones closed at 9791.71 The Kansas Minimum Wage was $6.55

. . . and the prices of some big and little ticket items were

Loaf of Bread:$ 2.49 Gallon of Milk: $ 3.85 First Class Stamp: $0.44 Average New Home: $132,500.00 New Car: $21,750.00

Populations:

Topeka: 120,300 U.S. Population: 288,930,087

Quatrell Cortez shares his birthday with these other interesting people 1854 - David Dunbar Buick - Automotive pioneer who founded the Buick Manufacturing Company in 1902 and whose innovations included the valve-in-head engine and the windshield 1900 - John Willard Marriott - American businessman who founded and built one of the country's most prominent hotel chains, which bears his name. 1923 - Hank Williams, Sr. - Legendary singer-songwriter whose songs "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", "Honky Tonkin'" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" are American country music classics. 1930 - Edgar Mitchell - American astronaut, member of the Apollo 14 crew and one of just a handful of people to set foot on the moon.

There have been some other notable events on this day in history 1787 - A nation unlike any other was born as the Constitution of the United States of America was signed this day by delegates from twelve states at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1911 - Pilot Calbraith Perry Rodgers flew his biplane out of Sheepshead Bay, New York, on what would become the first successful transcontinental airplane flight. Actual flight time for the 3,400 mile journey was just over 82 hours, but the trip took 49 days.