CAD - May 8 Traditional Cache
Screechowl: Time to say bye bye to this one
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Cache A Day – May 8th
May 8th is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 237 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of May is Get Caught Reading Month and Gifts from the Garden Month.
This first week of the month of May is National Nurses Week and National Tourism Week.
Today is VE Day. There are also a plethora of other holidays we celebrate today, but they all seem to pale in comparison to the end of World War II in Europe.
Historical events occurring on May 8th include:
1096 - Peter the Hermit and his army reached Hungary. They passed through without incident.
1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolted against King Henry VI.
1541 - Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. He called it Rio de Espiritu Santo.
1794 - Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen.
1794 - The United States Post Office was established.
1846 - The first major battle of the Mexican War was fought. The battle occurred in Palo Alto, TX.
1847 - The rubber tire was patented by Robert W. Thompson.
1879 - George Selden applied for the first automobile patent.
1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola."
1902 - Mount Pelee on Martinique erupted and killed over 30,000 people and destroyed the town of St. Pierre.
1904 - U.S. Marines landed in Tangier to protect the Belgian legation.
1914 - The U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
1915 - H.P. Whitney's Regret became the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby.
1919 - The first transatlantic flight took-off by a navy seaplane.
1921 - Sweden abolished capital punishment.
1933 - Gandhi began a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.
1939 - Clay Puett's electric starting gate was used for the first time.
1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
1945 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.
1954 - Parry O'Brien became the first to toss a shot put over 60 feet. O'Brien achieved a distance of 60 feet 5 1/4 inches.
1956 - Alfred E. Neuman appeared on the cover of "Mad Magazine" for the first time.
1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat".
1960 - Diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union resumed.
1961 - New Yorkers selected a new name for their new National League baseball franchise. They chose the Mets.
1967 - Muhammad Ali was indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.
1970 - Construction workers broke up an anti-war protest on New York City's Wall Street.
1973 - Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.
1978 - David R. Berkowitz, known as the "Son of Sam," pled guilty to six murder charges.
1984 - The Soviet Union announced that they would not participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics Games in Los Angeles.
1984 - Joanie (Erin Moran) and Chachi (Scott Baio) got married on ABC-TV's "Happy Days."
1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.
1986 - Reporters were told that 84,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.
1997 - Larry King received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 - A pipe burst leaving a million residents without water in Malaysia's capital area. This added to four days of shortages that 2 million already faced.
1999 - The first female cadet graduated from The Citadel military college.
Born on May 8th
Miguel Hidalgo 1753
Jean Henri Dunant 1828
Oscar Hammerstein 1847
Harry S. Truman (U.S.) 1884
Francis Desales Ouimet 1893
Bishop Fulton Sheen 1895
Robert Johnson 1911
Lex Barker 1919
Don Rickles 1926
David Attenborough 1926
Sonny Liston 1932
Thomas Pynchon 1937
Rick Nelson 1940
Peter Benchley 1940
James Mitchum 1941
John Fred (John Fred and His Playboy Band) 1941
Toni Tennille 1943
Paul Samwell-Smith (Yardbirds) 1943
Gary Glitter 1944
Chris Frantz (Talking Heads) 1951
Phillip Bailey (Earth, Wind and Fire) 1951
Billy Burnette 1954 - Musician (Fleetwood Mac)
David Keith 1954
Stephen Furst 1954
Alex Van Halen 1955 - Musician (Van Halen)
Ronnie Lott 1959
Eric Brittingham 1960 - Musician (Cinderella)
Melissa Gilbert 1964
Dave Rowntree (Blur) 1964
Del Gray (Little Texas) 1968
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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