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Cache A Day – March 17th
March 17th is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of March is National Steroid Abuse Prevention Month, Woman History Month, and National Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month.
Today is National Submarine Day, National Maple Syrup Day, National Quilting Day, National Boys and Girls Campfire Founding Day, National Rubber Band Day, and International Day of the Seal. If there is any time left over after that, feel free to drink some green beer and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!
Historical events occurring on March 17th include:
0461 - Bishop Patrick, St. Patrick, died in Saul. Ireland celebrates this day in his honor. (More about St. Patrick's Day)
1756 - St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in New York City for the first time. The event took place at the Crown and Thistle Tavern.
1766 - Britain repealed the Stamp Act that had caused resentment in the North American colonies.
1776 - British forces evacuated Boston to Nova Scotia during the Revolutionary War.
1868 - Postage stamp canceling machine patent was issued.
1870 - Wellesley College was incorporated by the Massachusetts legislature under its first name, Wellesley Female Seminary.
1884 - John Joseph Montgomery made the first glider flight in Otay, California.
1901 - In Paris, Vincent Van Gogh's paintings were shown at the Bernheim Gallery.
1910 - The Camp Fire Girls organization was founded by Luther and Charlotte Gulick. It was formally presented to the public exactly 2 years later.
1914 - Russia increased the number of active duty military from 460,000 to 1,700,000.
1917 - America’s first bowling tournament for ladies began in St. Louis, MO. Almost 100 women participated in the event.
1930 - Al Capone was released from jail.
1941 - The National Gallery of Art was officially opened by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC.
1942 - Douglas MacArthur became the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in the Southwestern Pacific.
1950 - Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announced that they had created a new radioactive element. They named it "californium". It is also known as element 98.
1958 - The Vanguard 1 satellite was launched by the U.S.
1959 - The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) fled Tibet and went to India.
1962 - Moscow asked the U.S. to pull out of South Vietnam.
1966 - A U.S. submarine found a missing H-bomb in the Mediterranean off of Spain.
1967 - Snoopy and Charlie Brown of "Peanuts" were on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.
1969 - Golda Meir was sworn in as the fourth premier of Israel.
1973 - The first American prisoners of war (POWs) were released from the "Hanoi Hilton" in Hanoi, North Vietnam.
1989 - A series of solar flares caused a violent magnetic storm that brought power outages over large regions of Canada.
1992 - White South Africans approved constitutional reforms to give legal equality to blacks.
1995 - Gerry Adams became the first leader of Sinn Fein to be received at the White House.
1999 - The International Olympic Committee expelled six of its members in the wake of a bribery scandal.
2007 - Mike Modano (Dallas Stars) scored his 502nd and 503rd career goals making him the all-time U.S. leader in goal-scoring.
2009 - The iTunes Music Store reached 800 million applications downloaded.
Born on March 17th
Roger Taney 1777
Gottlieb Daimler 1834
Jim Bridger 1881
Paul Eliot Green 1894
Shemp Howard 1895
Bobby Jones 1902
Marquis Childs 1903
John Pastore 1907
Bayard Rustin 1910
Frederick Brisson 1913
Mercedes McCambridge 1918 - Actress
Nat "King" Cole 1919
Paul Horn 1930
Dick Curless 1932
Adam Wade 1937
Rudolf Nureyev 1938
Paul Kantner 1941 - Musician (Jefferson Airplane/Starship)
Jim Weatherly 1943 - Singer, songwriter
Patrick McCauley (Them) 1944
John Sebastian 1944 - Singer, songwriter (Lovin' Spoonful)
Harold Brown 1946 - Musician (War)
Patrick Duffy 1949 - Actor
Kurt Russell 1951 - Actor
Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy) 1951
Susie Allanson 1952 - Country singer
Lesley-Anne Down 1954 - Actress
Gary Sinise 1955 - Actor ("C.S.I: NY")
Paul Overstreet 1955 - Country singer
Mike Lindup 1959 - Musician (Level 42)
Vicki Lewis 1960 - Actress
Casey Sirmaszko 1961 - Actor
Claire Grogan (Altered Images) 1962
Rob Stich 1962 - Writer, director
Rob Lowe 1964 - Actor
Van Connor 1967 - Musician (Screaming Trees)
Billy Corgan 1967 - Musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
Mathew St. Patrick 1968 - Actor ("Six Feet Under")
Yanic Truesdale 1969 - Actor ("Gilmore Girls")
Bill Mueller 1971 - Baseball player
Mia Hamm 1972 - Soccer player
Melissa Auf der Maur 1972 - Musician (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins)
Caroline Corr 1973 - Musician (The Corrs)
Marisa Coughlan 1974 - Actress
Stephen Gately 1976 - Singer (Boyzone)
Swifty 1977 - Rapper (D12)
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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