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Cache A Day – April 18th
April 18th is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 257 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of April is National Donate Life Month, National Garden Month, and National Humor Month.
This second week of the month of April is National Crime Victim Week.
Today is National Adult Autism Day, Pet Owner’s Independence Day, and World Amateur Radio Day.
Historical events occurring on April 18th include:
1521 - Martin Luther confronted the emperor Charles V in the Diet of Worms and refused to retract his views that led to his excommunication.
1676 - Sudbury, Massachusetts, was attacked by Indians.
1775 - American revolutionaries Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode though the towns of Massachusetts giving the warning that "the Regulars are coming out." Later, the phrase "the British are coming" was attributed to Revere.
1791 - National Guardsmen prevented Louis XVI and his family from leaving Paris.
1818 - A regiment of Indians and blacks were defeated at the Battle of Suwann, in Florida, ending the first Seminole War.
1834 - William Lamb became prime minister of England.
1838 - The Wilkes' expedition to the South Pole set sail.
1846 - The telegraph ticker was patented by R.E. House
1847 - U.S. troops defeated almost 17,000 Mexican soldiers commanded by Santa Anna at Cerro Gordo. (Mexican-American War)
1853 - The first train in Asia began running from Bombay to Tanna.
1861 - Colonel Robert E. Lee turned down an offer to command the Union armies during the U.S. Civil War.
1877 - Charles Cros wrote a paper that described the process of recording and reproducing sound. In France, Cros is regarded as the inventor of the phonograph. In the U.S., Thomas Edison gets the credit.
1895 - New York State passed an act that established free public baths.
1906 - San Francisco, CA, was hit with an earthquake. The orginal death toll was cited at about 700. Later information indicated that the death toll may have been 3 to 4 times the original estimate.
1910 - Walter R. Brookins made the first airplane flight at night.
1923 - Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx, NY. The Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 4-1. John Phillip Sousa's band played the National Anthem.
1924 - Simon and Schuster, Inc. published the first "Crossword Puzzle Book."
1934 - The first Laundromat opened in Fort Worth, TX.
1937 - Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
1938 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt threw out the first ball preceding the season opener between the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics.
1942 - James H. Doolittle and his squadron, from the USS Hornet, raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1942 - The Vichy government capitulated to Adolf Hitler and invited Pierre Laval to form a new government in France.
1943 - Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was shot down by American P-38 fighters.
1945 - American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. He was 44 years old.
1946 - The League of Nations was dissolved.
1949 - The Republic of Ireland was established.
1950 - The first transatlantic jet passenger trip was completed.
1954 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power in Egypt.
1955 - Albert Einstein died.
1956 - Actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco were married. The religious ceremony took place April 19.
1960 - The Mutual Broadcasting System was sold to the 3M Company of Minnesota for $1.25 million.
1978 - The U.S. Senate approved the transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama on December 31, 1999.
1979 - The TV show "Real People" premiered.
1980 - Rhodesia became in independent nation of Zimbabwe.
1983 - The U.S. Embassy in Beirut was blown up by a suicide car-bomber. 63 people were killed including 17 Americans.
1984 - Daredevils Mike MacCarthy and Amanda Tucker made a sky dive from the Eiffel Tower. The jump ended safely.
1985 - Ted Turner filed for a hostile takeover of CBS.
1985 - Tulane University abolished its 72-year-old basketball program. The reason was charges of fixed games, drug abuse, and payments to players.
1989 - Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy tried to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.
1999 - Wayne Gretzky (New York Rangers) played his final game in the NHL. He retired as the NHL's all-time leading scorer and holder of 61 individual records.
2000 - The Nasdaq had the biggest one-day point gain in its history.
2000 - Joan Lunden and Jeff Konigsberg were married.
2002 - Actor Robert Blake and his bodyguard were arrested in connection with the shooting death of Blake's wife about a year before.
2002 - The Amtrack Auto Train derailed in a remote area of north Florida. Four people were killed and 133 were injured.
2002 - The city legislature of Berlin decided to make Marlene Dietrich an honorary citizen. Dietrich had gone to the United States in 1930. She refused to return to Germany after Adolf Hitler came to power.
2007 - In Blacksburg, VA, a student killed 33 people at Virginia Tech before killing himself.
Born on April 18th
George Henry Lewes 1817
Clarence Darrow 1857 - Attorney, famous for his part in the Scopes 'monkey trial'
Sam (Samuel Earl) Crawford 1880 - Baseball player
Leopold Stokowski 1882 - Conductor
Sylvia Fisher 1910
Tony Mottola 1918 - Guitarist, arranger for Perry Como's TV variety show
Hal Galper 1938
Barbara Hale 1922 - Actress ("Perry Mason", "Airport")
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 1924
Clive Revill 1930 - Actor ("The Sea Wolf", "The Empire Strikes Back")
James Drury 1934
Don Ohl 1936 - Baseketball player
Robert Hooks 1937 - Actor ("Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", "Passenger 57")
Hal Galper 1938 - Jazz pianist (Hal Galper Quintet), author ("The Touring Musician")
Richie Pettibone 1938 - Football player
Mike Vickers 1941 - Musician (Manfred Mann)
Walt Sweeney 1941 - Football player
Steve Blass 1942 - Baseball player
Pete Gogolak 1942 - Football player
Jochen Rindt 1942 - Auto racer
Hayley Mills 1946 - Actress ("The Parent Trap"), singer
Alexander "Skip" Spence 1946 - Musician (Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane)
James Woods 1947 - Actor ("The Onion Field", "Casino")
Dorothy Lyman 1947 - Actress ("All My Children")
Cindy Pickett 1947
Walt Richmond 1947 - Musician (Tractors)
Nate Archibald 1948 - Basketball player
Catherine Malfilano 1948
Geoff Bodine 1949 - Auto racer
Rick Moranis 1954 - Actor ("Parenthood", "Ghostbuster" series, "Spaceballs")
John James 1956 - Actor ("Search for Tomorrow", "As the World Turns")
Eric Roberts 1956 - Actor ("Doctor Who", "The Coca-Cola Kid"), brother of actress Julia Roberts
Melody Thomas Scott 1956
Les Pattinson 1958 - Musician (Echo and the Bunnymen)
Wilbur Marshall 1962 - Football player
Jane Leeves 1963 - Actress (TV: "Frazier")
Conan O'Brien 1963 - Television personality ("Late Night with Conan O'Brien")
Eric McCormack 1963
Maria Bello 1967
Greg Eklund 1970 - Musician (Everclear)
Trina 1974 - Singer (Trina and Tamara)
Mark Thomas Tremonti 1974 - Guitarist (Creed)
Sean Maguire 1976
Melissa Joan Hart 1976 - Actress ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch")
Alia Shawkat 1989
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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