CAD - March 10 Traditional Geocache
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Cache A Day – March 10th
NOTE: This cache is located in an insanely high traffic area just off of Woodward Ave. Extreme stealth absolutely will be required due to traffic. You do NOT have to leave the sidewalk to retrieve the cache.
March 10th is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 296 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of March is National Humane Education Awareness, National Kidney Month, National Kite Month, and National Middle School Month. So… if I tell someone to go fly a kite, would that be considered an appropriate celebration of the month?
Today is National Middle Name Pride Day, National Genealogy Day, Zoe's Birthday (Sesame Street), and world Mario Day - a day for all persons named Mario. Somehow that just does not seem right – how an you celebrate Mario day on Zoe’s day???
Historical events occurring on March 10th include:
0515 BC - The building of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem was completed.
0241 BC - The Roman fleet sank 50 Carthaginian ships in the Battle of Aegusa.
0049 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy.
1496 - Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere when he left Hispaniola for Spain.
1629 - England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years.
1656 - In the American colony of Virginia, suffrage was extended to all free men regardless of their religion.
1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published.
1785 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France. He succeeded Benjamin Franklin.
1792 - John Stone patented the pile driver.
1804 - The formal ceremonies transferring the Louisiana Purchase from France to the U.S. took place in St. Louis.
1806 - The Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrendered to the British.
1814 - In France, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by a combined Allied Army at the battle of Laon.
1848 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war with Mexico.
1849 - Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the U.S. Civil War.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1880 - The Salvation Army arrived in the U.S. from England.
1893 - New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.
1894 - New York Gov. Roswell P. Flower signed the nation's first dog-licensing law.
1902 - U.S. Attorney General Philander Knox announced that a suit was being brought against Morgan and Harriman's Northern Securities Company. The suit was enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Northern Securities loss in court was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 14, 1904.
1903 - Harry C. Gammeter patented the multigraph duplicating machine.
1903 - In New York's harbor, the disease-stricken ship Karmania was quarantined with six dead from cholera.
1910 - Slavery was abolished in China.
1912 - China became a republic after the overthrow of the Manchu Ch'ing Dynasty. (See what happens when you free people!)
1913 - William Knox rolled the first perfect 300 game in tournament competition.
1924 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York state law forbidding late-night work for women.
1927 - Prussia lifted its Nazi ban allowing Adolf Hitler to speak in public.
1933 - Nevada became the first U.S. state to regulate drugs.
1940 - W2XBS-TV in New York City aired the first televised opera as it presented scenes from "I Pagliacci".
1941 - The Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would begin wearing batting helmets during the 1941 season.
1947 - The Big Four met in Moscow to discuss the future of Germany.
1947 - Poland and Czechoslovakia signed a 20-year mutual aid pact.
1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.
1956 - Julie Andrews at the age of 23 made her TV debut in "High Tor" with Bing Crosby and Nancy Olson.
1965 - Walter Matthau and Art Carney opened in "The Odd Couple". It later became a hit on television.
1969 - James Earl Ray pled guilty in Memphis, TN, to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray later repudiated the guilty plea and maintained his innocence until his death in April of 1998.
1971 - The U.S. Senate approved an amendment to lower the voting age to 18.
1980 - Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, lent his support to the militants holding American hostages in Tehran.
1982 - The U.S. banned Libyan oil imports due to their continued support of terrorism.
1987 - The Vatican condemned surrogate parenting as well as test-tube and artificial insemination.
1994 - White House officials began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.
2002 - The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon informed the U.S. Congress in January that it was making contingency plans for the possible use of nuclear weapons against countries that threaten the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, including Iraq and North Korea.
2003 - North Korea test-fired a short-range missile. The event was one of several in a patter of unusual military maneuvers.
Born on March 10th
Marcello Malpighi 1628
Friedrich Von Schlegel 1772
Barry Fitzgerald 1888
Arthur Honegger 1892
Bix Beiderbecke 1903
Claire Booth Luce 1903
Chandler Harper 1914
Heywood Hale Broun 1918
Pamela Mason 1919
Don Abney 1923
Jethro (Kenneth Burns) 1923
Ralph Emery 1933 - Talk show host
Norman Blake 1938 - Bluegrass musician
David Rabe 1940 - Playwright
Chuck Norris 1940 - Actor
Dean Torrence 1940 - Singer (Jan & Dean)
Sandra Jean Palmer 1941
Katharine Houghton 1945 - Actress
Bob Greene 1947 - Newspaper columnist
Tom Scholz 1947 - Musician (Boston)
Shannon Tweed 1957 - Actress
Sharon Stone 1958 - Actress
Gail Greenwood (Belly) 1960 - Musician (L7)
Jeff Ament 1963 - Musician (Pearl Jam)
Jasmine Guy 1964 - Actress
Neneh Cherry 1964 - Singer
Prince Edward (Britain) 1964 - Son of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II
Rod Woodson 1965 - Football player
Edie Brickell 1966 - Singer
Stephen Mailer 1966 - Actor
Paget Brewster 1969 - Actress
Dylan Keefe (Marcy Playground) 1970
Daryl Singletary 1971 - Country singer
Cristian de la Fuente 1974 - Actor ("Family Law")
Bree Turner 1977 - Actress
Shannon Miller 1977 - Olypic gold-medal gymnast
Carrie Underwood 1983 - Singer, winner of the fourth season of "American Idol", Carrie Underwood Official Store
Emily Osment 1992 - Actress ("Spy Kids" movies)
This Cache a Day Series will run all year for 2010. Caches will remain active for one year from date of placement (unless the site becomes otherwise unsuitable for a cache prior to that time).
Bonus points for finding the cache on the day it is released.
Double bonus points if it is your birthday! (Send me a note with your date of birth and I will include it in the cache listing.)
Triple bonus points for finding the entire series. (Ok, so that should be worth a lot more. We’ll figure out some suitable award for any survivors left at the end of the year)
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