CAD - January 8 Traditional Cache
-Rusty-: No response from owner. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.
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Cache A Day – January 8th
January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining until the end of the year.
Not only is today National Bubble Bath Day, but it is also National Show and Tell Day at Work day. If you want to be really efficient, you can combine the two! Afterward, you can relax and enjoy a treat on National English Toffee Day.
Historical events occurring on January 8th include:
1642 - Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy.
1675 - The first corporation was charted in the United States. The company was the New York Fishing Company. Prior to that, it was just a hobby.
1790 - In the United States, George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address.
1815 - The Battle of New Orleans began. The War of 1812 had officially ended on December 24, 1814, with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The news of the signing had not reached British troops in time to prevent their attack on New Orleans.
1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrated a telegraph code he had devised using dots and dashes as letters. The code was the predecessor to Samuel Morse's code.
1877 - Crazy Horse (Tashunca-uitco) and his warriors fought their final battle against the U.S. Cavalry in Montana.
1889 - The tabulating machine was patented by Dr. Herman Hollerith. His firm, Tabulating Machine Company, later became International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1901 - The first tournament sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress was held in Chicago, IL.
1916 - During World War I, the final withdrawal of Allied troops from Gallipoli took place.
1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points as the basis for peace upon the end of World War I.
1929 - The milk carton was invented today. Prior to this point in time, missing people’s portraits were tattooed on the sides of cows.
1935 - The spectrophotometer was patented by A.C. Hardy.
1957 - Jackie Robinson announced his retirement from major league baseball in an article that appeared in "LOOK" magazine.
1958 - Bobby Fisher, at the age of 14, won the United States Chess Championship for the first time.
1959 - Charles De Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France's Fifth Republic.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on Poverty."
1961 - Robert Goulet made his national TV debut this night on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on CBS.
1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was exhibited in America for the first time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
1973 - The trial opened in Washington, of seven men accused of bugging Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, DC. If you watched Forrest Gump, you know exactly how these guys were caught.
1975 - Ella Grasso became the governor of Connecticut. She was the first woman to become a governor of a state without a husband preceding her in the governor’s chair.
1982 - American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) settled the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.
1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed over the 2000 mark for the first time at 2,002.25.
1992 - U.S. President George Bush collapsed during a state dinner in Tokyo. White House officials said Bush was suffering from stomach flu. The video of the event is still one of the most watched on the internet!
1994 - Tonya Harding won the ladies' U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit, MI, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out because of a clubbing attack that injured her right knee. The U.S. Figure Skating Association later took the title from Harding because of her involvement in the attack. See January 7 for more details)
1997 - Mister Rogers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 - Ramzi Yousef was sentenced to life in prison for his role of mastermind behind the World Trade Center bombing in New York.
1998 - Scientists announced that they had discovered that galaxies were accelerating and moving apart and at faster speeds.
2009 - In Egypt, archeologists entered a 4,300 year old pyramid and discovered the mummy of Queen Sesheshet. We can expect to see Brendan Frasier to meet the Mummy Queen in episode six of his mummy epic
Born on January 8th
James Longstreet 1821
Jose Ferrer 1909
Larry Storch 1923
Ron Moody 1924
Soupy Sales (Milton Hines) 1926
Sander Vanocur 1928
Charles Osgood 1933 (no relation to Chris)
Elvis Presley 1935
Shirley Bassey 1937
Christy Lane 1940
Anthony Gourdine (Little Anthony and The Imperials) 1940
Yvette Mimieux 1941
Stephen Hawking 1942
Robby Krieger (The Doors) 1946
David Bowie 1947
Terry Sylvester (Hollies) 1947
John McTiernan 1951
Calvin Smith 1961
Maria Patillo 1965
R. Kelly 1969
Ami Dolenz 1969
Jenny Lewis 1976
Gaby Hoffman 1982
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)
Additional Hints
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