CAD - April 24 Traditional Cache
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Cache A Day – April 24th
April 24th is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of April is National Pet First Aid Awareness Month.
This third week of the month of April is National Fish Fry Week.
Today is National Penguin Day, Sense of Smell Day, Spring Astronomy Day, and World Tai Chi Day.
Historical events occurring on April 24th include:
1519 - Envoys of Montezuma II attended the first Easter mass in Central America.
1547 - Charles V's troops defeated the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the battle of Muhlburg.
1558 - Mary, Queen of Scotland, married the French dauphin, Francis.
1800 - The Library of Congress was established with a $5,000 allocation.
1805 - The U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli.
1833 - A patent was granted for first soda fountain.
1877 - Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire.
1877 - In the U.S., federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans. This was the end to the North's post-Civil War rule in the South.
1884 - Otto von Bismarck cabled Cape Town that South Africa was now a German colony.
1889 - The Edison General Electric Company was organized.
1897 - William Price became the first to be named White House news reporter.
1898 - Spain declared war on the U.S., rejecting America's ultimatum for Spain to withdraw from Cuba.
1915 - During World War I, the Ottoman Turkish Empire began the mass deportation of Armenians.
1916 - Irish nationalist launched the Easter Rebellion against British occupation forces. They were overtaken several days later.
1944 - The first B-29 arrived in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas.
1948 - The Berlin airlift began to relieve the surrounded city.
1952 - Raymond Burr made his TV acting debut on the "Gruen Guild Playhouse" in an episode titled, "The Tiger."
1953 - Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1955 - "X-Minus One," a science fiction show, was first heard for the first time on NBC radio.
1961 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers struck out 18 batters becoming the first major-league pitcher to do so on two different occasions.
1961 - U.S. President Kennedy accepted "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
1962 - MIT sent a TV signal by satellite for the first time.
1967 - Soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov died when his craft crashed with a tangled parachute.
1967 - The newest Greek regime banned miniskirts.
1968 - Leftist students took over several campus buildings at Columbia University.
1970 - The People's Republic of China launched its first satellite.
1973 - Albert Sabin reported that herpesviruses were factors in nine kinds of cancer.
1974 - David Bowie released "Diamond Dogs."
1981 - The IBM Personal Computer was introduced.
1987 - In Palm Bay, FL, a gunman opened fire in a mall. He killed six and wounded 10.
1988 - Off the Florida coast, a fire broke out on the submarine USS Bonefish. Three sailors were killed and twenty-two were injured.
1989 - Thousands of students began striking in Beijing.
1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL. It was carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.
1990 - Michael Milken pled guilty to six felonies and agreed to pay a $600 million penalty. He was later sentenced to ten years in prison. Milken had sold junk-bond in the 1980s.
1997 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention. The global treaty banned the development, production, storage and use of chemical weapons.
1998 - ABC confirmed that it was canceling the TV series "Ellen." The show was the first series to feature an openly gay lead character.
2000 - ABC-TV aired the TV movie "The Three Stooges."
2003 - A U.S. official reported the North Korea had claimed to have nuclear weapons
Born on April 24th
John Graunt 1620
Edmund Cartwright 1743
Robert Bailey Thomas 1766
George Bascom 1836
Henri Philippe Petain 1856
Robert Penn Warren 1905
Jack E. Leonard 1911
Aaron Bell 1922
J.D. Cannon 1922
John Griffin 1928
Freddy Scott 1933
Shirley Boone 1934
Shirley MacLaine 1934 - Actress
Jill Ireland 1936
Joe Henderson 1937
Sue Grafton 1940 - Author
Barbra Streisand 1942 - Singer, Barbra Streisand Official Store
Richard Sterban 1943 - Singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)
Bob Lunn 1945
Robert Knight 1945
Doug Clifford 1945 - Musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR))
Glenn Cornick 1947
Eric Bogosian 1953 - Actor
Vince Ferragamo 1954
Michael O'Keefe 1955
David J. 1957 - Musician (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
Boris Williams 1958 - Musician (Cure)
Glenn Morshower 1959 - Actor ("24")
Billy Gould 1963 - Musician (Faith No More)
Paul Ryder 1964 - Musician (Happy Mondays)
Djimon Hounsou 1964 - Actor
Cedric the Entertainer 1964 - Actor, comedian
Patty Schemel 1967 - Musician (Hole)
Omar Vizquel 1967 - Baseball player
Aaron Comess 1968 - Musician (Spin Doctors)
Chipper Jones 1972 - Baseball player
Brian Aubrey Marshall 1973 - Musician (Creed)
Eric Balfour 1977 - Actor
Carlos Beltran 1977 - Baseball player
Kelly Clarkson (Kelly Brianne Clarkson) 1983 - Singer, first "American Idol" participant to win a Grammy Award
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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