CAD - May 11 Traditional Cache
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Cache A Day – May 11th
May 11th is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 234 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of May is Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month, and International Audit Month.
This first week of the month of May is National Reading is Fun Week, and Salute to Mothers 35 and older Week.
Today is National Eat What You Want Day, and Fibromyalgia Awareness Day.
Historical events occurring on May 11th include:
0330 - Constantinople, previously the town of Byzantium, was founded.
1573 - Henry of Anjou became the first elected king of Poland.
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor.
1689 - French and English naval battle takes place at Bantry Bay.
1745 - French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army at Fontenoy.
1792 - The Columbia River was discovered by Captain Robert Gray.
1812 - British prime Minster Spencer Perceval was shot by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons.
1816 - The American Bible Society was formed in New York City.
1857 - Indian mutineers seized Delhi from the British.
1858 - Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi landed at Marsala, Sicily.
1889 - Major Joseph Washington Wham takes charge of $28,000 in gold and silver to pay troops at various points in the Arizona Territory. The money was stolen in a train robbery.
1894 - Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company in Illinois went on strike.
1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded.
1934 - A severe two-day dust storm stripped the topsoil from the great plains of the U.S. and created a "Dust Bowl." The storm was one of many.
1944 - A major offensive was launched by the allied forces in central Italy.
1947 - The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.
1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
1960 - Israeli soldiers captured Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
1967 - The siege of Khe Sanh ended.
1985 - More than 50 people died when a flash fire swept a soccer stadium in Bradford, England.
1995 - The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was extended indefinitely. The treaty limited the spread of nuclear material for military purposes.
1996 - An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades. All 110 people on board were killed.
1997 - Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM's chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beat a world-champion player.
1998 - India conducted its first underground nuclear tests, three of them, in 24 years. The tests were in violation of a global ban on nuclear testing.
1998 - A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency. The coin is known as the euro.
2001 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his decision to approve a 30-day delay of the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh had been scheduled to be executed on May 16, 2001. The delay was because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had failed to disclose thousands of documents to McVeigh's defense team.
Born on May 11th
Irving Berlin 1888 - Composer, lyricist
Martha Graham 1894 - Dancer, choreographer
William Grant Still 1895 - Classical composer
Salvador Dali (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) 1904 - Surrealist painter
Phil Silvers 1912 - Entertainer, comedy actor ("The Phil Silvers Show"), known as "The King of Chutzpah"
Foster Brooks 1912 - Actor, comedian
Doodles Weaver (Winstead Sheffield "Doodles" Weaver) 1914 - Actor, comedian
Denver Dell Pyle 1920 - Actor
Mort Sahl (Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahl) 1927 - Comedian, actor
Stanley Elkin 1930 - Novelist, short story writer, essayist
Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam
Dick Garcia 1938 - Musician
Doug McClure 1938 - Actor
Eric Burdon 1941 - Musician (The Animals)
Les Chadwick 1943 - Musician (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
Dr. Robert Jarvik 1946 - Scientist, researcher, entrepreneur
Frances Fisher 1952 - Actress ("Titanic," "Unforgiven")
Boyd Gaines 1953 - Actor
Mark Herndon 1955 - Musician (Alabama)
J.J. Jeczalik 1955 - Musician (Art of Noise)
Martha Quinn 1959 - One of the original video jockeys on MTV
Natasha Richardson 1963 - Actress
Austin O'Brien 1980 - Actor
Jonathan Jackson 1982 - Actor
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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