Lucas Charles Frischling greeted the world at 7:42 p.m. EDT on Friday, June 28th 2002 at the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, after 41 hours and 42 minutes of labor. After a long labor, Lucas arrived in this world via a cesarean section. Lucas came to us at 9 pounds even and measured 21 1/2 inches long. He has deep blue eyes and light brown hair. He's also pretty darn cute. Mom's doing great after the c-section, and Lucas couldn't be happier, except when his feet are uncovered.
Lucas is a Latin name meaning "bringer of light." Charles is a German name meaning "man," or "strong." Lucas comes from Jennifer's Grandpa Lucia. Charles comes from Jen's Grandpa Charles. His Hebrew name is Ori Chaim. Ori in English means "My Light." Chaim is the Hebrew name for Charles. You can read about the men in Jennifer's family he was named for here.
At that exact moment of his birth, at home in Great Falls, Virginia, it was 73 degrees fahrenheit, with no wind and 93% humidity under mostly cloudy skies with 10 miles of visibility. The barometer was steady at 29.59. It had hit a high of 84.2 degrees and a low of 67.5 degrees. A nice rainshower at about 5 p.m. in the day helped cool things down.
In the news at the time: President George Bush was to undergo a colonoscopy that required sedation, placing Vice President Dick Cheney in charge for a short period of time. Israel attacked a Palestinian post in Hebron as part of the continuing unrest in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Wildfires continued to threaten several communities in Northern Arizona, while Xerox revised its revenue downward by $1.9 billion, the latest in a string of accounting irregularities plaguing corporate American in 2002. The Dow had closed down 26.7 points at 9243.26 while the Nasdaq closed up 4 points at 1463.21. The Who decided to continue its world tour after death of the group's bassist, John Entwistle.
And finally, a postage stamp would be 34 cents for just a few more days. It went up to 37 cents on June 30.
| 767 |  | St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 1635 | | French colony of Guadeloupe established in the Caribbean |
| 1770 | | Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia |
| 1776 | | Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack |
| 1778 | | Battle of Monmouth, NJ |
| 1778 | | Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots |
| 1820 | | Tomato is proven nonpoisonous |
| 1838 | | Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey |
| 1894 | | Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday |
| 1905 | | Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship "Potemkin" |
| 1914 | | Assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo by a Serbian Nationalist,Gavrilo Princip. This incident precipitated a war with Serbia, eventually starting WW1 |
| 1918 | | 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands |
| 1919 | | Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence |
| 1919 | | Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed |
| 1939 | | Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper) |
| 1940 | | Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union |
| 1945 | | Polish Provisional Govt of National Unity set up by Soviets |
| 1950 | | North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea |
| 1951 | | "Amos 'n' Andy" premiers on CBS TV |
| 1964 | | Organization for Afo-American Unity forms in NY by Malcolm X |
| 1965 | | 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson |
| 1968 | | Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers |
| 1971 | | Supreme Court overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali |
| 1977 | | Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes |
