CAD - May 9 Traditional Cache
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Cache A Day – May 9th
NOTE: Please return cache back exactly as you found it to make it reachable from every direction.
May 9th is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 236 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of May is Go Fetch Food Drive for Homeless Animals Month, and Haitian Heritage Month.
This first week of the month of May is National Nursing Home Week and National Police Week.
Today is Mother’s Day, National Rogation Day, and Rural Life Sunday Day. Best wishes to ALL of the caching moms out there!
Historical events occurring on May 9th include:
1429 - Joan of Arc defeated the besieging English at Orleans. Random Caching Factoid: The actual chapel that Joan of Arc prayed in on a daily basis was disassembled and moved to the United States. Eventually, it ended up in the middle of Marquette University in Milwaukee. It is currently the location of a virtual cache and available to tour.
1502 - Christopher Columbus left Spain for his final trip to the Western Hemisphere.
1671 - Thomas "Captain" Blood stole the crown jewels from the Tower of London.
1754 - The first newspaper cartoon in America showed a divided snake "Join or die" in "The Pennsylvania Gazette."
1785 - Joseph Bramah patented the beer-pump handle.
1825 - The Chatham Theatre opened in New York City. It was the first gas-lit theater in America.
1901 - In Australia, the Duke of Cornwall and York declared the First Commonwealth Parliament open.
1915 - German and French forces fought the Battle of Artois.
1926 - Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly an airplane over the North Pole.
1930 - A starting gate was used to start a Triple Crown race for the first time.
1936 - Fascist Italy took Addis Abba and annexed Ethiopia.
1936 - The first sheet of postage stamps of more than one variety went on sale in New York City.
1940 - Vivien Leigh debuted in America on stage in "Romeo and Juliet" with Lawrence Olivier.
1941 - The German submarine U-110 was captured at sea by Britain's Royal navy.
1945 - U.S. officials announced that the midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.
1946 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy abdicated and was replaced by Umberto.
1955 - West Germany joined NATO.
1958 - Richard Burton made his network television debut in the presentation of "Wuthering Heights" on CBS-TV.
1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time.
1961 - Jim Gentile (Baltimore Orioles) set a major league baseball record when he hit a grand slam home run in two consecutive innings. The game was against the Minnesota Twins.
1962 - A laser beam was successfully bounced off Moon for the first time.
1974 - The House Judiciary Committee began formal hearings on the Nixon impeachment.
1978 - The bullet-riddled body of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was found in an automobile in the center of Rome. The Red Brigades had abducted him.
1980 - A Liberian freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida. 35 motorists were killed and a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed.
1987 - Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers were married.
1994 - Nelson Mandela was chosen to be South Africa's first black president.
1996 - In video testimony to a courtroom in Little Rock, AR, U.S. President Clinton insisted that he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan in the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners.
2002 - In Bethlehem, West Bank, a deal was reached that would end the 38-day standoff at the Church of the Nativity. Thirteen suspected militants were to be deported to several different countries. The standoff had begun on April 2, 2002.
2002 - In Kaspiisk, Russia, 39 people were killed and at least 130 were injurde when a remote-controlled bomb exploded during a holiday parade.
2002 - In Bahrain, people were allowed to vote for representatives for the first time in nearly 30 years. Women were allowed to vote for the first time in the country's history.
Born on May 9th
John Brown 1800
Belle Boyd 1843
Sir James Barrie 1860
Howard Carter 1873
Henry J. Kaiser 1882
Hank Snow 1914
Mike Wallace 1918
Lloyd Price 1933
Alan Bennett 1934
Albert Finney 1936
Glenda Jackson 1936
Dave Prater (Sam & Dave) 1937
Sonny Curtis (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) 1937
Ralph Boston 1939
Nokie Edwards (The Ventures) 1939
James L. Brooks 1940
Pete Birrell (Freddie and the Dreamers) 1941
Tommy Roe 1942
Richie Furay (Buffalo Springfield, Poco) 1944
Steve Katz (Blood, Sweat and Tears) 1945
Clint Holmes 1946
Candice Bergen 1946
Anthony Higgins 1947
Billy Joel 1949
Tom Peterson (Cheap Trick) 1950
Alley Mills 1951
Tony Gwynn 1960
Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode) 1962
Paul Heaton (The Housemartins) 1962
Peter Wilkinson (Cast) 1969
Tamia 1975
Dan Regan (Reel Big Fish) 1977
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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