CAD - February 1 Traditional Cache
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Cache A Day – February 1st
February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 333 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today is National Working Naked Day, Robinson Crusoe Day, National Hula in The Coola Day, National Freedom Day, and National Baked Alaska Day. Please do not post any pictures of how you are celebrating the day. After all, this is a family friendly website!
Historical events occurring on February 1st include:
1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat.
1790 - The U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York City.
1793 - France declared war on Britain and Holland.
1793 - Ralph Hodgson patented oiled silk.
1861 - Texas voted to secede from the Union.
1862 - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," by Julia Ward Howe was first published in the "Atlantic Monthly."
1867 - In the U.S., bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
1893 - Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio in West Orange, NJ.
1896 - Puccini's opera "La Boheme" premiered in Turin.
1898 - The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, CT, issued the first automobile insurance policy. Dr. Truman Martin of Buffalo, NY, paid $11.25 for the policy, which gave him $5,000 in liability coverage.
1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera.
1913 - Grand Central Terminal (also known as Grand Central Station) opened in New York City, NY. It was the largest train station in the world.
1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.
1920 - The first armored car was introduced.
1920 - Canada's Royal North West Mounted Police changed their name to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The organization was commissioned in 1873.
1921 - Carmen Fasanella registered as a taxicab owner and driver in Princeton, New Jersey. Fasanella retired November 2, 1989 after 68 years and 243 days of service.
1930 - The Times published its first crossword puzzle.
1933 - Skippy Peanut butter is sold for the first time!
1946 - Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
1951 - The first telecast of an atomic explosion took place.
1951 - The first X-ray moving picture process was demonstrated.
1954 - CBS-TV showed "The Secret Storm" for the first time.
1957 - P.H. Young became the first black pilot on a scheduled passenger airline.
1958 - The United Arab Republic was formed by a union of Egypt and Syria. It was broken 1961.
1960 - Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. They had been refused service.
1968 - During the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head. The scene was captured in a news photograph.
1979 - Patty Hearst was released from prison after serving 22 months of a seven-year sentence for bank robbery. Her sentence had been commuted by U.S. President Carter.
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was welcomed in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.
1987 - Terry Williams won the largest slot machine payoff, at the time, when won $4.9 million after getting four lucky 7s on a machine in Reno, NV.
1994 - Jeff Gillooly pled guilty in Portland, OR, for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, struck a plea bargain under which he confessed to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony implicating Harding.
2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.
Born on February 1st
Victor Herbert 1859 - Cellist, conductor
John Ford (Sean Aloysius O’Feeney) 1894 - Director
Clark Gable 1901 - Actor ("It Happened One Night", "Gone with the Wind")
Langston Hughes 1902 - Author
S.J. (Sidney) Perelman 1904 - Writer, screenwriter
Stuart Whitman 1928 - Actor ("Cimarron Strip", "The Longest Day")
Boris Yeltsin 1931 - Russian president 1991-1999
Bob Shane 1934 - Singer (The Kingston Trio)
Garrett Morris 1937 - Actor, comedian
Don Everly 1937 - Singer (The Everly Brothers)
Ray Sawyer 1937 - Singer (Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show)
Jacky Cupit 1938 - Golfer (With an appropriate name no less!)
Sherman Hemsley 1938 - Actor ("The Jeffersons")
Joe Sample 1939 - Jazz musician
Del McCoury 1939 - Bluegrass singer
Terry Jones 1942 - Comedian ("Monty Python" series)
Wayne Rivers 1942 - Hockey player
Dennis Farina 1944
Paul Blair 1944 - Baseball player
Rick James 1952 - Singer (Songs: "Cold Blooded" and "Super Freak")
Bill Mumy 1954 - Actor (Lost in Space)
Mike Campbell 1954 - Rock musician (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers)
Exene Cervenka 1956 - Singer (X)
Sherilynn Fenn 1965 - Actress ("Twin Peaks")
Princess Stephanie of Monaco (Stéphanie Marie Elisabeth Grimaldi) 1965 - Singer, youngest child of Grace Kelly and Rainier III of Monaco, recorded "In The Closet" with Michael Jackson.
Lisa Marie Presley 1968 - Musician, daughter of Elvis Presley
Pauly Shore 1970 - Comedian, actor ("Encino Man")
Big Boi 1975 - Rapper (Outkast)
Jarrett Lennon 1982 - Actor ("Freaks and Geeks")
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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