CAD - January 26 Traditional Cache
-allenite-: As there has been no response from owner regarding my previous note, I'm archiving this cache. Please note that if geocaches are archived by a reviewer or Geocaching HQ for lack of maintenance, they are not eligible for unarchival.
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Cache A Day – January 26th
January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today is National Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement Day, National Speak Up and Succeed Day, National Peanut Brittle Day, Now that's a trio of holidays I can get into!
Historical events occurring on January 26th include:
1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón discovered Brazil. (Much to the surprise of the three million people that already lived there.)
1736 - Stanislaus I formally abdicated as King of Poland.
1784 - In a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the eagle as the symbol of America. He wanted the symbol to be the turkey.
1788 - The first European settlers in Australia, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in what became known as Sydney. The group had first settled at Botany Bay eight days before. This day is celebrated as Australia Day.
1802 - The U.S. Congress passed an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol.
1827 - Peru seceded from Colombia in protest against Simón Bolívar's alleged tyranny.
1837 - Michigan became the 26th state to join the United States. Yeah!
1841 - Britain formally occupied Hong Kong, which the Chinese had ceded to the British.
1861 - In the U.S., Louisiana seceded from the Union.
1870 - The state of Virgina rejoined the Union.
1875 - George F. Green patented the electric dental drill for sawing, filing, dressing and polishing teeth. Masochists around the world rejoiced.
1905 - The Cullinan diamond, weighing 114 lbs, was found by Captain Wells at the Premier Mine, near Pretoria, South Africa.
1911 - Inventor Glenn H. Curtiss flew the first successful seaplane.
1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park was founded
1926 - Television's Birthday
1934 - The Apollo Theatre opened in New York City.
1939 - In the Spanish Civil War, Franco's forces, with Italian aid, took Barcelona.
1942 - The first American expeditionary force to go to Europe during World War II went ashore in Northern Ireland.
1950 - India officially proclaimed itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad took the oath of office as president.
1950 - The American Associated Insurance Companies, of St. Louis, MO, issued the first baby sitter’s insurance policy.
1954 – Ground was broken for Disneyland
1961 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy appointed Dr. Janet G. Travell as the first woman to be the "personal physician to the President."
1962 - The U.S. launched Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the moon. The probe missed its target by about 22,000 miles. Oops.
1979 - The ‘Gizmo’ guitar synthesizer was first demonstrated. Peter Frampton’s career was born.
1992 - Russian president Boris Yeltsin announced that his country would stop targeting U.S. cities with nuclear weapons.
1994 - In Sydney, Australia, a young man lunged at and fired two blank shots at Britain's Prince Charles.
1996 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury concerning the Whitewater probe.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton denied having an affair with a former White House intern, saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
1999 - Saddam Hussein vowed revenge against the U.S. in response to air-strikes that reportedly killed civilians. The strikes were U.S. planes defending themselves against anti-aircraft fire.
Born on January 26th
Douglas MacArthur 1880 We’re still waiting for him to return.
Stephane Grappelli 1908
Cora Baird 1912
William Prince 1913
James Van Heusen 1913
William Hopper 1915
Derek Bond 1919
Page Cavanaugh (Page Cavanaugh Trio) 1922
Anne Jeffreys 1923
Paul Newman 1925
Joan Leslie 1925
Roger Vadim 1928
Jules Feiffer 1929
Mary Murphy 1931
Claude Gray (The Tall Texan) 1932
Huey "Piano" Smith 1934
Bob Uecker 1935
Scott Glenn 1942
Jean Knight 1943
Angela Davis 1944
Gene Siskel 1946
David Strathairn 1949
David Briggs (The Little River Band) 1951
Lucinda Williams 1953
Eddie Van Halen 1957
Ellen DeGeneres 1958
Norman Hassan (UB40) 1958
Wayne Gretzky 1961
Andrew Ridgeley (Wham!) 1963
Jazzie B. (Soul II Soul) 1963
Kirk Franklin 1970
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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