CAD - February 4 Traditional Cache
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(The name of this cache has been corrected to identify the proper month. Oops! Thanks to the two dozen people sending me notes about the error)
Cache A Day – February 4th
February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today is National National Stuffed Mushroom Day, Create a Vacuum Day, Thank a Mailman Day, Liberace Day, Quacker Day, and most importantly – GUMBY’S BIRTHDAY!!!
Historical events occurring on February 4th include:
1783 - Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America.
1789 - Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
1824 - J.W. Goodrich introduced rubber galoshes to the public.
1847 - In Maryland, the first U.S. Telegraph Company was established.
1861 - Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, AL, to form the Confederate States of America.
1901 - "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines" opened in New York City.
1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began after Japan laid siege to Port Arthur.
1913 - Louis Perlman received a patent for his demountable tire-carrying rims.
1932 - The first Winter Olympics were held in the United States at Lake Placid, NY.
1935 - CBS radio presented "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" for the first time.
1936 - Radium E. became the first radioactive substance to be produced synthetically.
1938 - The play "Our Town", by Thornton Wilder, opened in New York City.
1941 - The United Service Organizations (USO) was created.
1945 - During World War II, U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a conference at Yalta to outline plans for Germany's defeat.
1952 - Jackie Robinson was named Director of Communication for NBC. He was the first black executive of a major radio-TV network.
1957 - Smith-Corona Manufacturing Inc., of New York, began selling portable electric typewriters. The first machine weighed 19 pounds.
1964 - The Administrator of General Services announced that the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had been ratified. The amendment banned the poll tax.
1968 - The world's largest hovercraft was launched at Cowes, Isle of Wight.
1974 - Patricia (Patty) Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, CA, by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1985 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan's defense budget called for a tripling of the expenditure on the "Star Wars" research program.
1993 - Russian scientists unfurled a giant mirror in orbit and flashed a beam of sunlight across Europe during the night. Observers saw it only as a momentary flash.
1997 - President Milosevic of Serbia apparently surrendered to the will of his people, ordering his government to recognize opposition victories in local elections held in November 1996.
1997 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) scored his 600th National Hockey League (NHL) goal during his 719th game. Lemieux reached the milestone second fastest in history. Gretzky had reached the plateau during his 718th game.
1999 - Gary Coleman was sentenced to a $400 fine, a suspended 90-day jail sentence, and ordered to attend 52 anger-management classes. The sentence stemmed from Coleman assaulting an autograph seeker on July 30, 1998.
2003 - Yugoslavia was formally dissolved by lawmakers. The country was replaced with a loose union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro.
Born on February 4th
Mark Hopkins 1802
Fernand Léger 1881
Jacques Prévert 1900
Charles Lindbergh 1902
MacKinlay Kantor 1904
Eddie Foy Jr. 1905
James Craig 1912
Byron Nelson 1912
Rosa Parks 1913
Dick Seaman 1913
William Talman 1915
Ida Lupino 1918
Norman Wisdom 1918
Betty Friedan 1921
William Phipps 1922
Conrad Bain 1923
Gary Conway 1936
John Schuck 1940
George A. Romero 1940
John Steel (The Animals) 1941
Cheryl Miller 1943
Florence LaRue (The Fifth Dimension) 1944
David Brenner 1945
Dan Quayle 1947
Alice Cooper 1948
Michael Beck 1949
Pamela Franklin 1950
Lisa Eichhorn 1952
Lawrence Taylor 1959
Pamela Ferdin 1960
Tim Booth (James) 1960
Henry Bogdan (Helmet) 1961
Clint Black 1962
Dave Buchanan (Yankee Grey) 1966
Gabrielle Anwar 1970
David Garza 1971
Michael Goorjian 1971
Natalie Imbruglia 1975
Rick Burch (Jimmy Eat World) 1975
Cam'ron 1976
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)
Vs gur arneol rfgnoyvfuzrag vf bcra, srry serr gb qebc va naq fnl uryyb gb gur pnpur bjare!
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