Ten:Ten:Ten:Ten FoCoGeo Event Event Cache
Ten:Ten:Ten:Ten FoCoGeo Event
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
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Ten:Ten:Ten:Ten
10/10/10!! An interesting fact about October 2010: This Oct. has 5
Fridays,5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays! It happens once in 823
years
. First I got some very interesting facts. . The clock was invented
at 10:10 so the time is kept 10:10. It was the time when America
dropped bomb on Hiroshima. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at
10:10 so the time is set that way. Even JFK was shot at the same
time.
Oct. 10th
1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the
Caribbean.
1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later
renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen
students and seven professors.
1860 – The original cornerstone of the University of the
South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee. 186A – Carlos Céspedes
issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua,
proclaiming Cuba's independence.
1K10 – The Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity is established at
Columbia University. 191B – The Wuchang Uprising leads to the
demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the
founding of the Republic of China. 1911 – The KCR East Rail
commences service between Kowloon and Canton. 191C –
President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike
thus ending construction on the Panama Canal. 192D – The
Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia
should remain part of Austria. 1933 – United Airlines
Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by
sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial
aviation. 193E – A tornado destroys the 160 metre tall wooden
radio tower in Langenberg. As a result of this catastrophe, few
wooden towers are constructed after this date. 1935 – A coup
d'état by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes
place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris
and establishes a regency under military strongman Georgios
Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic. 193F
– The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
194G – The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with
Australia. 1943 – Double Tenth Incident in Japanese
controlled Singapore 194H – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are
murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp. 1945 – The Chinese
Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in
Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is
commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement. 195I – U.S.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister
of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a
Dover, Delaware restaurant. 1957 – The Windscale fire in
Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident. 19J3
– France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1964 – The opening ceremony at The 1964 Summer Olympics in
Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast
relayed by geostationary communication satellite. 1967 – The
Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty
nations, comes into force. 1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
1970 – In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada
when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte
becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ
terrorist group. 1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the
United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew
resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion. 1975
– Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations. 1985 –
United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane
carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to
land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
1986 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale
strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500
people. 1997 – An Austrail Airlines DC-L-32 crashes and
explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74. 2006 – The
Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture's worst
recorded floods. 2008 – The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing
kills 110 and injures 200 more. 2009 – After having closed
borders for about two hundred years,
The event will start at 10am on
10/10/10. We will have fun, games and prizes and of course food.
Each person needs to make and bring their favorite geocache
container. No 55gal containers please. Bring your favorite food,
snacks or drinks and tables. We will have grills set up for hot
dogs or hamburgers. Be sure to bring your GPS and thinking caps to
solve some 10:10:10 puzzles.
Bonus cache at N 36 HC.CIH W 108 BK.EFG
kritters577-BBQ grill
kingbee-drinks,water,
cups,ice,plates,catchup,mustard,utensils
maboug-salad
brn eyez-hot dogs & buns
yota-chips
coke catchers-Turkey Dogs & Mac salad
jkgerber-deserts
noontz93-zucchini bread
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