CAD - January 29 Traditional Cache
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Cache A Day – January 29th
January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 336 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today is National Kazoo Day, National Corn Chip Day, Carnation Day, National Puzzle Day, and Free Thinkers Day (in honor of Thomas Paine’s Birthday). I don’t know about everyone else, but corn chips tend to clog up my Kazoo. Somebody should have thought out this combination of holidays before they decided on the final dates.
January 29th is also Hiker Willie's Birthday! Please stop for a minute and sing a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday in his honor!
Historical events occurring on January 29th include:
1728 - John Gay's The Beggar's Opera was first performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London.
1802 - John Beckley became the first Librarian of Congress.
1820 - Britain's King George III died insane at Windsor Castle.
1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was published for the first time in the "New York Evening Mirror."
1848 - Greenwich Mean Time was adopted by Scotland. This was done as an affront to England who had just adopted Ipswich Generally Pleasant Time.
1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.
1856 - Britain's highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, was founded by Queen Victoria.
1861 - In America, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
1886 - The first successful petrol-driven motorcar, built by Karl Benz, was patented.
1900 - The American League (Baseball) was officially formed.
1916 - In World War I, Paris was bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
1924 - R. Taylor patented the ice cream cone rolling machine.
1929 – The Seeing Eye Dog / Guide Dog Association was created.
1936 - The first members of major league baseball's Hall of Fame were named in Cooperstown, NY.
1940 - The W. Atlee Burpee Seed Company displayed the first tetraploid flowers at the New York City Flower Show.
1949 - "The Newport News" was commissioned as the first air-conditioned naval ship in Virginia.
1958 - Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married.
1958 - Charles Starkweather was captured by police in Wyoming.
1963 - The first members to the NFL's Hall of Fame were named in Canton, OH.
1963 - Britain was refused entry into the EEC.
1979 - U.S. President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House. The visit followed the establishment of diplomatic relations.
1985 - The Dow Jones industrial average peaked at 1,292.62.
1987 - "Physician’s Weekly" announced that the smile on the face of Leonardo DeVinci's Mona Lisa was caused by a "...facial paralysis resulting from a swollen nerve behind the ear."
1990 - Joseph Hazelwood, the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, went on trial in Anchorage, AK, on charges that stemmed from America's worst oil spill. Hazelwood was later acquitted of all the major charges and was convicted of a misdemeanor.
1995 - The San Francisco 49ers became the first team in National Football League (NFL) history to win five Super Bowl titles. The 49ers defeated the San Diego Chargers 49-26.
1996 - La Fenice, the 204 year old opera house in Venice, was destroyed by fire. Arson was suspected.
1997 - America Online agreed to give refunds to frustrated customers under threat of lawsuits across the country. Customers were unable to log on after AOL offered a flat $19.95-a-month rate.
1998 - A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, AL, killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse. Eric Rudolph was charged with this bombing and three other attacks in Atlanta.
1999 - Paris prosecutors announced the end of the investigation into the accident that killed Britain's Princess Diana.
1999 - The U.S. Senate delivered subpoenas for Monica Lewinsky and two presidential advisers for private, videotaped testimony in the impeachment trial.
2001 - In Indonesia, thousands of student protesters stormed the parliament property and demanded that President Abdurrahman Wahid quit due to his alleged involvement in two corruption scandals. Wahid announced that he would not resign.
Born on January 29th
Thomas Paine (Common Sense) 1737
William McKinley (U.S. President) 1843
Lawrence Hargrave 1850
W.C. Fields 1880
Huddie Ledbetter 1889
Allen B. DuMont 1901
Joe Primeau 1906
"Professor" Irwin Corey 1912
Victor Mature 1916
John Forsythe 1918
Paddy Chayefsky 1923
Noel Harrison 1936
Germaine Greer 1939
Katherine Ross 1942
Claudine Longet 1942
Tom Selleck 1945
David Byron (Uriah Heep) 1947
Marc Singer 1948
Tommy Erdelyi (The Ramones) 1952
Ann Jillian 1950
Louie Perez (Los Lobos) 1953
Oprah Winfrey 1954
Diane Delano 1957
Irlene Mandrell 1957
Judy Norton Taylor 1958
Johnny Spampinato (NRBQ) 1959
Greg Louganis 1960
Eddie Jackson (Queensryche) 1961
David Baynton-Power (James) 1961
Nicholas Turturro 1962
Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) 1964
Dominik Hasek (NHL) 1965
Edward Burns 1968
Aeneas Williams (NFL) 1968
Thomas Jane 1969
Heather Graham 1970
Sara Gilbert 1975
Andrew Keegan 1979
Jonny Lang 1981
Hint: This one will leave you scratching your head.
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
(Decrypt)
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