CAD - January 18 Traditional Cache
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Cache A Day – January 18th
January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today is Martin Luther King Day, National Maintenance Day, National Get to Know Your Customers Day, Polygraph Day, Thesaurus Day, and Winnie The Pooh Day!
Historical events occurring on January 18th include:
1486 Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York.
1701 Frederick III, the elector of Brandenburg, becomes king of Prussia.
1778 Captain James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, naming them the ‘Sandwich Islands’ after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich.
1788 The First Fleet, carrying convicts and sheep, arrived in Australia's Botany Bay.
1836 Jim Bowie arrives at the Alamo to assist its Texas defenders.
1862 John Tyler, former president of the U.S., is buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.
1902 The Isthmus Canal Commission in Washington shifts its support from Nicaragua to Panama as a favored canal site.
1910 Aviator Eugene Ely performs his first successful take off and landing from a ship in San Francisco.
1916 The Russians force the Turkish 3rd Army back to Erzurum.
1942 General MacArthur repels the Japanese in Bataan. The United States took the lead in the Far East war criminal trials.
1945 The German Army launches its second attempt to relieve the besieged city of Budapest from the advancing Red Army.
1948 Ghandi breaks a 121-hour fast after halting Muslem-Hindu riots.
1962 The United States begins spraying foliage with herbicides in South Vietnam, in order to reveal the whereabouts of Vietcong guerrillas.
1964 Plans are disclosed for the World Trade Center in New York.
1978 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isolate the cause of Legionnaire’s disease.
1991 Iraq starts firing Scud missiles at Israeli cities.
Born on January 18th
1782 Daniel Webster
1856 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
1882 A. A. Milne
1892 Oliver Hardy
1904 Cary Grant
1904 Danny Kaye
1931 Chun Doo Hwan
1933 John Boorman
1933 Ray Dolby
1941 Bobby Goldsboro
1941 David Ruffin
1955 Kevin Costner
1961 Mark Messier
1971 Jonathan Davis
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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