CAD - February 8 Traditional Cache
-allenite-: No response from owner. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.
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Cache A Day – February 8th
February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 326 days remaining until the end of the year.
February 8, 2010 is the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America! Over the past century, The Boy Scouts have grown to be one of the largest youth organizations in the US. There are currently over four million youth members of Scouting and well over 100 million people have participated in Scouting in the US since its inception. Locally, some our most prominent cachers have come into the sport thanks to Scouting. Besides myself, GSix5666, SRStuart, Team Eccs21, Trash-R-Hunter, QuailFinder, and lots more are currently very active in Scouting
Today is also Super Bowl Monday (also known as National Hangover Day), National Laugh and Get Rich Day, National Fly a Kite Day, and National Leadership Success Day.
Historical events occurring on February 8th include:
1587 - Mary, the Queen of Scots, was executed.
1693 - A charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.
1802 - Simon Willard patented the banjo clock.
1861 - The Confederate States of America was formed.
1861 - A Cheyenne delegation and some Arapaho leaders accepted a new settlement (Treaty of Fort Wise) with the U.S. Federal government. The deal ceded most of their land but secured a 600-square mile reservation and annuity payments.
1896 - The Western Conference was formed by representatives of Midwestern universities. The group changed its name to the Big 10 Conference.
1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began with Japan attacking Russian forces in Manchuria.
1910 - William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America.
1918 - "The Stars and Stripes" newspaper was published for the first time.
1922 - The White House began using radio after U.S. President Harding had it installed.
1924 - The first U.S. execution to make use of gas took place in Nevada State Prison.
1936 - The first National Football League draft was held. Jay Berwanger was the first to be selected. He went to the Philadelphia Eagles.
1952 - Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the British throne. Her father, George VI, had died two days earlier.
1963 - The Kennedy administration prohibited travel to Cuba and made financial and commercial transactions with Cuba illegal for U.S. citizens.
1963 - Lamar Hunt, owner of the American Football League franchise in Dallas, TX, moved the operation to Kansas City. The new team was named the Chiefs.
1969 - The last issue of the "Saturday Evening Post" was published.
1971 - The Nasdaq stock-market index debuted.
1973 - U.S. Senate leaders named seven members of a select committee to investigate the Watergate scandal.
1974 - The three-man crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth after 84 days.
1978 - The U.S. Senate deliberations were broadcast on radio for the first time. The subject was the Panama Canal treaties. Thousands of insomnia patients were cured instantly.
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced a plan to re-introduce draft registration.
1985 - "The Dukes of Hazzard" ended its 6-1/2 year run on CBS television.
1993 - General Motors sued NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" had rigged two car-truck crashes to show that some GM pickups were prone to fires after certain types of crashes. The suit was settled the following day by NBC – mostly because their own broadcast clearly illustrated the method NBC used rig the two trucks.
1999 - In Sri Lanka, 23 rebels were killed in fighting with Sri Lankan forces.
Born on February 8th
William Tecumsen Sherman 1820 - Union General during U.S. Civil War
Jules Verne 1828
Dame Edith Evans 1888
Lyle Talbot 1902
Chester F. Carlson 1906
Buddy Morrow 1919
Lana Turner 1921
Audrey Meadows 1924
Jack Lemmon 1925
Alejandro Rey 1930
James Dean 1931
John Williams 1932
Larry Verne 1936
Ray Sharpe 1938
Ted Koppel 1940
Brian Bennett (The Shadows) 1940
Nick Nolte 1941
Robert Klein 1942
Creed Bratton (The Grass Roots) 1943
Bunky Henry 1944
Dan Seals 1948
Ron Tyson (The Temptations) 1948
Brooke Adams 1949
Mary Steenburgen 1953
John Grisham 1955
Vince Neil (Motley Crue) 1961
Sammy Llanas (The BoDeans) 1961
Gary Coleman 1968
Mary McCormack 1969
Seth Green 1974
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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