
Announcing the arrival of a beautiful new baby boy born at Banner Gateway Medical Center, Gilbert, Arizona....
Preston Kent

12:53 p.m.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
21 inches
7 pounds, 13.5 ounces
Delivery Doctor: Eric Huish, DO
Origin of the name Preston: English
Name's original meaning: the priest's village
This day in history
Population:
Gilbert: 208,453
U.S. population: 310,748,818
Sunrise and sunset:
5:32 a.m.
7:35 p.m.
Local weather:
Gilbert high: 108° F
Gilbert low: 84° F
The nation's weather extremes:
High: 115° at Bullhead City, Ariz.
Low: 31° at Stanley, Idaho
The day's Dow Jones close:
12,587.42
Your dollar's worth
Loaf of bread: $2.49
Gallon of milk: $3.85
Gallon of gasoline: $3.78
First-class stamp: $0.44
New car: $21,750.00
Average new home: $201,000.00
Other interesting people born on this date:
1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary - New Zealand adventurer who, with the Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay, became the first to achieve the summit of the world's highest mount, 29,028 foot Mount Everest.
1894 - Errett Lobban Cord - American automotive innovator who produced the exceptional Dusenberg cars and the first popular front-wheel drive car, the Cord L-29.
1836 - Sir Thomas Allbutt - English physician and inventor of the modern clinical thermometer which replaced the foot-long unit that required 20 minutes to record a person's temperature.
Other notable events on this day in history:
1985 - Treasure hunter Mel Fisher began to reap the rewards of years of searching as his team began recovering more than $400 million in coins, jewels, gold and silver from the wreck of the Spanish galleon "Nuestra Senora de la Atocha" off the coast of Key West, Florida in 1622.
1969 - One of history's great adventures culminated as astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon .
1942 - A new branch of America's armed forces was initiated as the first member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
1841 - Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered to be the first modern detective story, was published.
1 comment:
Congrats!! So exciting. I love this post too.
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