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Cache A Day – April 27th
April 27th is the 117th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of April is National Workplace Conflict Awareness Month.
This fourth week of the month of April is National Scoop the Poop Week.
Today is National Mantanzas Mule Day, National Teach Your Children to Save Day, and International Morse Code Day.
Historical events occurring on April 27th include:
1296 - The Scots were defeated by Edward I at the Battle of Dunbar.
1509 - Pope Julius II excommunicated the Italian state of Venice.
1521 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.
1565 - The first Spanish settlement in Philippines was established in Cebu City.
1805 - A force led by U.S. Marines captured the city of Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.
1813 - Americans under Gen. Pike capture York (present day Toronto) the seat of government in Ontario.
1861 - U.S. President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
1861 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from the Union during the American Civil War.
1863 - The Army of the Potomac began marching on Chancellorsville.
1865 - In the U.S. the Sultana exploded while carrying 2,300 Union POWs. Between 1,400 - 2,000 were killed.
1880 - Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.
1897 - Grant's Tomb was dedicated.
1899 - The Western Golf Association was founded in Chicago, IL.
1903 - Jamaica Race Track opened in Long Island, NY.
1909 - The sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, was overthrown.
1937 - German bombers devastated Guernica, Spain.
1938 - Geraldine Apponyi married King Zog of Albania. She was the first American woman to become a queen.
1938 - A colored baseball was used for the first time in any baseball game. The ball was yellow and was used between Columbia and Fordham Universities in New York City.
1945 - The Second Republic was founded in Austria.
1946 - The SS African Star was placed in service. It was the first commercial ship to be equipped with radar.
1947 - "Babe Ruth Day" was celebrated at Yankee Stadium.
1950 - South Africa passed the Group Areas Act, which formally segregated races.
1953 - The U.S. offered $50,000 and political asylum to any Communist pilot that delivered a MIG jet.
1953 - Five people were killed and 60 injured when Mt. Aso erupted on the island of Kyushu.
1960 - The submarine Tullibee was launched from Groton, CT. It was the first sub to be equipped with closed-circuit television.
1961 - The United Kingdom granted Sierra Leone independence.
1965 - "Pampers" were patented by R.C. Duncan.
1967 - In Montreal, Prime Minister Lester Pearson lighted a flame to open Expo 67.
1975 - Saigon was encircled by North Vietnamese troops.
1978 - Pro-Soviet Marxists seized control of Afghanistan.
1982 - The trial of John W. Hinckley Jr. began in Washington. Hinckley was later acquitted by reason of insanity for the shooting of U.S. President Reagan and three others.
1982 - China proposed a new constitution that would radically alter the structure of the national government.
1983 - Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) broke a 55-year-old major league baseball record when he struck out his 3,509th batter of his career.
1984 - In London, Libyan gunmen left the Libyan Embassy 11 days after killing a policewoman and wounding 10 others.
1986 - Captain Midnight (John R. MacDougall) interrupted HBO.
1989 - Student protestors took over Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
1987 - The U.S. Justice Department barred Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the U.S. He claimed that he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1992 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by the Republic of Serbia and its ally Montenegro.
1992 - Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
2005 - The A380, the world's largest jetliner, completed its maiden flight. The passenger capability was 840.
2005 - Russian President Vladimir Putin became the first Kremlin leader to visit Israel.
2006 - In New York, NY, construction began on the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower on the site of former World Trade Center.
Born on April 27th
Edward Gibbon 1737 - Historian, author
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 1759 - Author
Samuel F.B. (Finley Breese) Morse 1791 - Inventor (electromagnetic telegraph)
Ulysses S. Grant 1822 - 18th U.S. President, Lt. General in command of all Union armies during the U.S. Civil War, nickname: Hero of Appomattox
- Today in U.S. Civil War History - More information here - Today in U.S. President History
Edward Whymper 1840 - Climber, explorer, illlustrator
Wallace Hume 1896 - Chemist, inventor, credited with invention of nylon
Rogers "Rajah" Hornsby 1896 - Baseball player
Walter Lantz 1900 - Animator, creator of Woody Woodpecker
Enos (Bradsher) "Country" Slaughter 1916 - Baseball player
Jack Klugman 1922 - Actor ("The Odd Couple", "Quincy, M.E.")
Coretta Scott King 1927 - Wife of Dr. Martin Luther King
Chuck Knox 1932 - Football coach
Casey Kasem (Kemal Amin Kasem) 1932 - Radio announcer, DJ, host ("American Top 40), character voice of Shaggy from Scooby Doo, actor ("Hawaii Five-O")
Maxine Brown 1932 - Musician (The Browns)
Calvin Newborn 1933 - Jazz/blues guitarist, brother of pianist Phineas Newborn Jr.
Anouk Aimee (Françoise Sorya Dreyfus) 1934 - Actress ("La Dolce Vita", "Dr. Bethune")
Phil Jones 1937 - Newsman
Sandy Dennis 1937 - Actress ("Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff [1966]", "Splendor in the Grass")
Judy Carne 1939 - Actress, comedienne
Judith Blegen 1941 - Opera singer
Lee Roy Jordan 1941 - Football player
Bob Foster 1942 - Boxer
Cuba Gooding 1944 - Singer
Doug Buffone 1944 - Football player
Ann Peebles 1947 - Singer
Mack Alston 1947 - Football player
Keith Magnuson 1947 - Hockey player
Pete Ham 1947 - Musician (Badfinger)
Dave Peel 1947 - Musician (The Lower East Side)
Kate Pierson 1948 - Musician (B-52's), Official B-52s Store
Herbie Murrell 1949 - Singer (The Stylistics)
Douglas Sheehan 1949 - Actor
Clive Taylor 1949 - Musician (Amen Corner)
Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley 1951 - Musician (KISS, Frehley's Comet)
Gary Huff 1951 - Football player
George Gervin 1952 - Basketball player
Sheena Easton 1959 - Singer
Marco Pirroni 1959 - Musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees, Adam & the Ants)
James Le Gros 1962 - Actor
Rob Squires 1965 - Musician (Big Head Todd & the Monsters)
Mica Paris 1969 - Singer
Chris Carpenter 1975 - Baseball player
Travis Meeks 1979 - Musician (Days of the New)
Patrick Stump 1984 - Musician (Fall out Boy)
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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