CAD - March 24 Traditional Cache
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Cache A Day – March 24th
March 24th is the 83nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 282 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today is the birthday of fellow Geocacher BrownSignBob! His home is way down south in Dayton, so you will have to sing extra loudly for him to hear you above the sound of all of the jets flying out of Wright-Patt!
Today is National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day, National Family Day, and Saint Gabriel Day - the Archangel is the patron saint of postal, telephone and telegraph workers.
Historical events occurring on March 24th include:
1379 - The Gelderse war ended.
1545 - German Parliament opened in Worms.
1550 - France and England signed the Peace of Boulogne.
1629 - The first game law was passed in the American colonies, by Virginia. Badminton was outlawed.
1664 - A charter to colonize Rhode Island was granted to Roger Williams in London.
1720 - In Paris, banking houses closed due to financial crisis.
1765 - Britain passed the Quartering Act that required the American colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings.
1792 - Benjamin West became the first American artist to be selected president of the Royal Academy of London.
1828 - The Philadelphia & Columbia Railway was authorized as the first state owned railway.
1837 - Canada gave blacks the right to vote
1868 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was formed.
1880 - The first "hail insurance company" was incorporated in Connecticut. It was known as Tobacco Growers’ Mutual Insurance Company.
1882 - In Berlin, German scientist Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis germ (bacillus).
1883 - The first telephone call between New York and Chicago took place.
1898 - The first automobile was sold.
1900 - Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke the ground for the New York subway tunnel that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1900 - In New Jersey, the Carnegie Steel Corporation was formed.
1904 - Vice Adm. Tojo sank seven Russian ships as the Japanese strengthened their blockade of Port Arthur.
1906 - In Mexico, the Tehuantepec Istmian Railroad opened as a rival to the Panama Canal.
1906 - The "Census of the British Empire" revealed that England ruled 1/5 of the world.
1920 - The first U.S. coast guard air station was established at Morehead City, NC.
1924 - Greece became a republic.
1927 - Chinese Communists seized Nanking and break with Chiang Kai-shek over the Nationalist goals.
1932 - Belle Baker hosted a radio variety show from a moving train. It was the first radio broadcast from a train.
1934 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.
1938 - The U.S. asked that all powers help refugees fleeing from the Nazis.
1944 - In Rome, The Gestapo rounded up innocent Italians and shot them to death in response to a bomb attack that killed 32 German policemen. Over 300 civilians were executed.
1947 - The U.S. Congress proposed the limitation of the presidency to two terms.
1955 - Tennessee Williams' play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" debuted on Broadway.
1955 - The first oil drill seagoing rig was put into service.
1960 - A U.S. appeals court ruled that the novel, "Lady Chatterly’s Lover", was not obscene and could be sent through the mail.
1972 - Great Britain imposed direct rule over Northern Ireland.
1981 - "Nightline" with Ted Koppel premiered.
1982 - Soviet leader Leonid L. Brezhnev stated that Russia was willing to resume border talks with China.
1985 - Thousands demonstrated in Madrid against the NATO presence in Spain.
1989 - The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound after it ran aground.
1993 - In Israel, Ezer Weizman, an advocate of peace with neighboring Arab nations, was elected President.
1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a welfare reform package that made the most changes in social programs since the New Deal.
2002 - Thieves stole five 17th century paintings from the Frans Hals Museum in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The paintings were worth about $2.6 million. The paintings were works by Jan Steen, Cornelis Bega, Adriaan van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart.
2005 - Sandra Bullock received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2006 - In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire.
Born on March 24th
Rufus King 1755
Antonio Rosmini-Serbati 1797
John Powell 1834
William Morris 1834
Andrew Mellon 1855
Harry Houdini 1874
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle 1887
Arthur Murray 1895
Dorothy Stratton 1898
June Clark 1900
Joseph Barbera 1911 - Cartoonist
Richard (Nicholas) Conte 1914
Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1919
Gene Nelson 1920
Dave Appell 1922 - Musician (Applejacks)
Norman Fell 1924
Dario Fo 1926 - Playwright
Byron Janis 1928
Vanessa Brown 1928
Steve McQueen 1930
William Smith 1933
Billy Stewart 1937
Bob Mackie 1940 - Fashion designer
R. Lee Ermey 1944 - Actor
Curtis Hanson 1945 - Director
BrownSignBob 1947 Geocacher Extraordinaire
Lee Oskar 1948 - Musician (War)
Nick Lowe 1949 - Singer
Dougie Thomson 1951 - Musician (Supertramp)
Louie Anderson 1953 - Comedian
Donna Pescow 1954 - Actress
Robert Carradine 1954 - Actor
Kelly LeBrock 1960 - Actress ("Wierd Science")
Rodney "Kool Kollie" Terry 1961 - DJ (Ghostown DJs)
Star Jones 1962 - TV host ("The View")
Annabella Sciorra 1964 - Actress
Lara Flynn Boyle 1970 - Actress
Shannon Corr 1970 - Singer, musician (The Corrs)
P.A. Pasemaster Mase 1970 - Rapper (De La Soul)
Jim Parsons 1973 - Actor ("The Big Bang Theory")
Alyson Hannigan 1974 - Actress ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "How I Met Your Mother")
Peyton Manning 1976 - Football player
Olivia Burnette 1977
Keisha Castle-Hughes 1990 - Actress ("The Whale Rider")
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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