CAD - January 20 Traditional Cache
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Cache A Day – January 20th
January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 345 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today is National Cheese Day, National Buttercrunch Day, Take a Walk Outdoors Day, National Camcorder Day, National Disc Jockey Day, and Roller Coaster Day! So, if you make a video of yourself taking a walk outdoors over to your nearest roller coaster, while snacking on some cheese and butter crunch and while listening to the radio, you’ve pretty much got the day covered!
Historical events occurring on January 20th include:
1265 - The first English parliament met in Westminster Hall.
1801 - John Marshall was appointed chief justice of the United States.
1839 - Chile defeated a confederation of Peru and Bolivia in the Battle of Yungay.
1841 - The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain. It returned to Chinese control in July 1997.
1885 - The roller coaster was patented by L.A. Thompson.
1886 - The Mersey Railway Tunnel was officially opened by the Prince of Wales.
1887 - The U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
1891 - James Hogg took office as the first native-born governor of Texas.
1892 - The first official basketball game was played by students at the Springfield, MA, YMCA Training School.
1929 - The movie "In Old Arizona" was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
1937 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to be inaugurated on January 20th. The 20th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution officially set the date for the swearing in of the President and Vice President.
1952 - In Juarez, Mexico, Patricia McCormick debuted as the first professional woman bullfighter from the United States.
1953 - "Studio One" became the first television show to be transmitted from the United States to Canada.
1961 - Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller were divorced. They were married on June 29, 1956.
1972 - The number of unemployed in Britain exceeded 1 million.
1981 - Iran released 52 Americans that had been held hostage for 444 days. The hostages were flown to Algeria and then to a U.S. base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The release occurred minutes after the U.S. presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.
1985 - The most-watched Super Bowl game in history was seen by an estimated 115.9 million people. The San Francisco 49ers downed the Miami Dolphins, 38-16. Super Bowl XIX marked the first time that TV commericals sold for a million dollars a minute.
1986 - Britain and France announced their plans to build the Channel Tunnel.
1986 - New footage of the 1931 "Frankenstein" was found. The footage was originally deleted because it was considered to be too shocking.
1987 - Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite was kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon. He was there attempting to negotiate the release of Western hostages. He was not freed until November 1991.
1997 - Bill Clinton was inagurated for his second term as president of the United States.
1998 - American researchers announced that they had cloned calves that may produce medicinal milk. They also glow in the dark, but the announcement adroitly ignored that side-effect.
1999 - The China News Service announced that the Chinese government was tightening restrictions on internet use. The rules were aimed at 'Internet Bars.'
Born on January 20th
Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763
Leadbelly (Huddie William Ledbetter) 1889
George Burns 1896
Aristotle Onassis 1906
Joy Adamson 1910
Lawrence Dobkin 1919
DeForest (I’m a doctor, not a miracle worker!) Kelley 1920
Federico Fellini 1920
Ray Anthony (Antonini) 1922
Otis Dewey “Slim” Whitman 1924
Patricia Neal 1926
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin 1930 (Second man on the moon)
Edward "Fireball" Roberts 1931
Arte Johnson 1934 (dat is verrrryy interesting)
Camilo Pascual 1934
Dorothy Provine 1937
Carol Heise 1940
Ron Townson (The 5th Dimension) 1941
Eric Stewart (Mindbenders) 1945
David Lynch 1946
Malcolm McLaren 1946
George Grantham (Poco) 1947
Paul Stanely (KISS) 1950
Ian Hill (Judas Priest)1952
Bill Maher 1956
Lorenzo Lamas 1958
John Michael Montgomery 1965
Stacy Dash 1967
Melissa Rivers 1968
Skeet Ulrich 1969
Mark Trojanowski (Sister Hazel) 1970
Gary Barlow 1971
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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