CAD - February 10 Traditional Cache
-allenite-: No response from owner. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email) within 30 days, and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.
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Cache A Day – February 10th
February 10th is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 319 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today is National Pro Sports Wives Day, National Umbrella Day (what? Couldn’t they have picked a day AFTER winter was over???), And National Plimsoll Day! Let’s all make sure to check our Plimsoll lines to ensure that we are not overloaded.
Historical events occurring on February 10th include:
1763 - The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. In the treaty France ceded Canada to England.
1840 - Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.
1846 - Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began their exodus to the west from Illinois.
1863 - In New York City, two of the world’s most famous midgets, General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren were married.
1863 - The fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane.
1870 - The YWCA was founded in New York City.
1879 - The electric arc light was used for the first time.
1897 - "The New York Times" began printing "All the news that's fit to print" on their front page.
1920 - Major league baseball representatives outlawed pitches that involve tampering with the ball. Tampering with the pitcher’s arm however, would remain legal.
1923 - Ink paste was manufactured for the first time by the Standard Ink Company.
1925 - The first waterless gas storage tank was placed in service in Michigan City, IN.
1933 - The singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York City.
1933 - Primo Carnera knocked out Ernie Schaaf in round 13 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Schaaf died as a result of the knockout punch.
1934 - The first imperforated, ungummed sheets of postage stamps were issued by the U.S. Postal Service in New York City.
1935 - The Pennsylvania Railroad began passenger service with its electric locomotive. The engine was 79-1/2 feet long and weighed 230 tons.
1942 - The Normandie, the former French liner, capsized in New York Harbor. The day before the ship had caught fire while it was being fitted for the U.S. Navy.
1949 - "Death of a Salesman" opened at the Morocco Theatre in New York City.
1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged capture American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel being held by the U.S.
1967 - The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment required the appointment of a vice-president when that office became vacant and instituted new measures in the event of presidential disability.
1989 - Ron Brown became the first African American to head a major U.S. political party when he was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that black activist Nelson Mandela would be released the next day after 27 years in captivity.
1998 - A man became the first to be convicted of committing a hate crime in cyberspace. The college dropout had e-mailed threats to Asian students.
2005 - North Korea publicly announced for the first time that it had nuclear arms. The country also rejected attempts to restart disarmament talks in the near future saying that it needed the weapons as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.
2009 - A Russian and an American satellite collide over Siberia.
Born on February 10th
Charles Lamb 1775
William Allen White 1868
Boris Pasternak 1890
Jimmy Durante 1893
Dame Judith Anderson 1898
Lon Chaney, Jr. 1905
Larry Adler 1914
Allie Reynolds 1919
Neva Patterson 1922
Leontyne Price 1927
Jerry Goldsmith 1929
Robert Wagner 1930
James E. West 1931
Don Wilson (The Ventures) 1937
Roberta Flack 1939
Jimmy Merchant (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers) 1940
Frances Moore Lapp 1944
Mark Spitz 1950
Greg Norman 1955
Kathleen Beller 1955
George Stephanopoulos 1961
Cliff Burton (Metallica) 1962
Laura Dern 1967
Dude Mowrey 1972
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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