CAD - January 17 Traditional Geocache
-allenite-: As there's been no response from the cache owner to my previous note, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.
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Cache A Day – January 17th
January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 348 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today is National Bald Eagle Appreciation Day, National Customer Service Day, National Kid Inventors Day, National Judgment Day, and World Religion Day. Is there some hidden (or maybe not so hidden) connection between the last two holidays? While you are searching for the answer to that question, see if you can find out exactly who invented kids in the first place? We celebrate their achievement today, I just can’t figure out whose achievement it is!
Historical events occurring on January 17th include:
1377 - The Papal See was transferred from Avignon in France back to Rome.
1562 - French Protestants were recognized under the Edict of St. Germain.
1773 - Captain Cook's Resolution became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle.
1795 - The Dudingston Curling Society was organized in Edinburgh, Scotland. My Brother-In-Law Marty, annually downs a pint of Guinness to celebrate!
1806 - James Madison Randolph, grandson of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, was the first child born in the White House.
1852 - The independence of the Transvaal Boers was recognized by Britain.
1871 - Andrew S. Hallidie received a patent for a cable car system.
1882 - Thomas Edison's exhibit opened the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London.
1893 - Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. Mostly because they could not spell nor pronounce her name.
1900 - The U.S. took Wake Island where there was in important cable link between Hawaii and Manila.
1900 - Yaqui Indians in Texas proclaimed their independence from Mexico.
1905 - Punchboards were patented by a manufacturing firm in Chicago, IL.
1912 - English explorer Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole. Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him there by one month. Scott and his party died during the return trip.
1913 - All partner interests in 36 Golden Rule Stores were consolidated and incorporated in Utah into one company. The new corporation was the J.C. Penney Company.
1916 - The Professional Golfers Association was formed in New York City.
1928 - The fully automatic, film-developing machine was patented by A.M. Josepho.
1929 – Popeye appeared onscreen for the first time. Spinach sales went through the roof!
1934 - Ferdinand Porsche submitted a design for a people's car, a "Volkswagen," to the new German Reich government.
1945 - Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw during World War II.
1946 - The United Nations Security Council held its first meeting.
1961 - In his farewell address, U.S. President Eisenhower warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex."
1985 - Leonard Nimoy got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Live Long and Prosper!
1991 - Coalition airstrikes began against Iraq after negotiations failed to get Iraq to retreat from the country of Kuwait.
1994 - The Northridge earthquake rocked Los Angeles, CA, registering a 6.7 on the Richter Scale. At least 61 people were killed and about $20 billion in damage was caused.
1997 - A court in Ireland granted the first divorce in the Roman Catholic country's history.
Born on January 17th
Benjamin Franklin 1706
Anton Chekhov 1860
David Lloyd George (Britain) 1863
Noah Beery 1883
Mack Sennet 1884
Marjorie Gateson 1891
Al Capone 1899
George Handy 1920
Betty White 1922
Moira Shearer 1926
Eartha Kitt 1927
Vidal Sassoon 1928
Jacques Plante 1929
James Earl Jones 1931
Sheree North 1933
Shari Lewis (Hurwitz) 1934
Troy Donahue 1937
Maury Povich 1939
Muhammad Ali 1942
Chris Montez 1944
William Hart (Delfonics) 1945
Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) 1948
Andy Kaufman 1949
Steve Earle 1955
Paul Young 1956
David Caruso 1956
Steve Harvey 1957
Susanna Hoffs (Bangles) 1957
John Crawford (Berlin) 1960
Jim Carrey 1962
Shabba Ranks 1966
Kid Rock 1971
Ray J 1981
Amanda Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons) 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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