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Cache A Day – May 12th
May 12th is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 233 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of May is International Business Image Improvement Month.
This second week of the month of May is National Etiquette Week, and National Salvation Army Week.
Today is National Nutty Fudge Day and National School Nurse Day.
Historical events occurring on May 12th include:
1588 - King Henry III fled Paris after Henry of Guise triumphantly entered the city.
1780 - Charleston, South Carolina fell to British forces.
1831 - Edward Smith became the first indicted bank robber in the U.S.
1847 - William Clayton invented the odometer.
1870 - Manitoba entered the Confederation as a Canadian province.
1881 - Tunisia, in North Africa became a French protectorate.
1885 - In the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebelled against the Canadian government.
1888 - Charles Sherrill of the Yale track team became the first runner to use the crouching start for a fast break in a foot race.
1926 - The airship Norge became the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
1926 - In Britain, a general strike by trade unions ended. The strike began on May 3, 1926.
1932 - The infant body of Charles and Anna Lindbergh's son was found just a few miles from the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, NJ.
1937 - Britain's King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1940 - The Nazi conquest of France began with the German army crossing Muese River.
1942 - The Soviet Army launched its first major offensive of World War II and took Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine from the German army.
1943 - The Axis forces in North Africa surrendered during World War II.
1949 - The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin Blockade.
1950 - The American Bowling Congress abolished its white males-only membership restriction after 34 years.
1957 - A.J. Foyt won his first auto racing victory in Kansas City, MO.
1965 - West Germany and Israel exchanged letters establishing diplomatic relations.
1970 - Ernie Banks, of the Chicago Cubs, hit his 500th home run.
1975 - U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodian forces in international waters.
1978 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women.
1982 - In Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpowered a Spanish priest armed with a bayonet who was trying to reach Pope John Paul II.
1982 - South Africa unveiled a plan that would give voting rights to citizens of Asian and mixed-race descent, but not to blacks.
1984 - South African prisoner Nelson Mandela saw his wife for the first time in 22 years.
1992 - Four suspects were arrested in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny at the start of the Los Angeles riots.
1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin dismissed Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and named Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin as his successor.
2002 - Former U.S. President Carter arrived in Cuba for a visit with Fidel Castro. It was the first time a U.S. head of state, in or out of office, had gone to the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2003 - In Texas, fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers went into hiding over a dispute with Republican's over a congressional redistricting plan.
2008 - In the U.S., the price for a one-ounce First-Class stamp increased from 41 to 42 cents.
Born on May 12th
Edward Lear 1812 - Poet, illustrator
Lord Grimthorpe (Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, Q.C.) 1816 - Lawyer, horologist, architect
Florence Nightingale 1820 - Nurse, contributed to modern nursing procedures, author
Dante Rossetti 1828 - Poet, artist, brother of poet Christian Rossetti
Jules Massenet 1842 - French composer
Gabriel Urbain Fauré 1845 - French composer, pianist
Mildred McAfee 1900 - Captain Mildred McAfee (Horton), first director of U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service)
Katherine Hepburn 1907 - Actress ("Morning Glory", "On Golden Pond [1981]", "The Rainmaker")
Howard K. Smith 1914 - Journalist, TV anchorman
Mary Kay Ash 1915 - U.S. businesswoman and the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc., born Mary Kathlyn Wagner
Joe Maphis 1921 - (Otis W.) Joe Maphis, country singer, entertainer, songwriter
Bob Goldham 1922 - Hockey player
John Simon 1925 - Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1940-1945
Yogi Berra 1925 - Baseball player, manager
Burt Bacharach 1929 - Composer
Samuel Nujoma 1929 - President of Namibia
Felipe (Felipe Rojas) Alou 1935 - Baseball player
John Bucyk 1935 - Hockey player
Tom Snyder 1936 - Journalist, television host
Frank Stella 1936 - Abstract artist, sculptor, painter
George Carlin 1937 - Comedian, actor
Susan Hampshire 1938 - Actress ("Cry Terror", "David Copperfield")
Millie Perkins 1938 - Actress ("Wall Street", "Ensign Pulver")
Ronald L. Ziegler 1939 - Journalist, Press Secretary for U.S. President Richard M. Nixon
Jayotis Washington 1941 - Musician (The Persuasions)
Billy Swan 1942 - Singer, songwriter
Ted (Theodore Rodger) Kubiak 1942 - Baseball player
Ian Dury 1942 - Singer (Ian Dury and the Blockheads)
David Walker 1943 - Musician (Gary Lewis & The Playboys)
Linda Dano (Linda Rae Wildermuth) 1943 - Actress
Ian McLagan 1946 - Musician
Steve Winwood 1948 - Musician (Blind Faith, Traffic, Spencer Davis Group)
Lindsay Crouse 1948 - Actress ("The Juror", "Slap Shot", "Traps")
Billy Squier 1950 - Singer
Pat (Patrick Leonard) Darcy 1950 - Baseball player
Gabriel Byrne 1950 - Actor ("In Treatment")
Bruce Boxleitner 1950 - Actor ("Scarecrow and Mrs. King", "The Babe")
Kix Brooks 1955 - Musician (Brooks and Dunn)
Lou Whitaker 1957 - Baseball player, nicknamed "Sweet Lou"
Kim Greist 1958 - Actress ("Homeward Bound" movies, "Chicago Hope")
Kevin Bass 1959 - Baseball player
Ving Rhames 1961 - Actor
Billy Duffy 1961 - Musician (The Cult)
Emilio Estevez 1962 - Actor ("Breakfast Club", "The Mighty Ducks" movies, "Young Guns"), Martin Sheen's son, Charlie Sheen's brother
Vanessa Williams 1963 - Actress
Eddie Kilgallon 1965 - Musician (Ricochet)
Stephen Baldwin 1966 - Actor ("Born on the Fourth of July"), brother of Alec Baldwin, William Baldwin and Daniel Baldwin
Tony Hawk 1968 - Skateboarder
Kim Fields 1969 - Actress ("The Facts of Life")
Samantha Mathis 1970 - Actress
Jamie Luner 1971 - Actress ("Melrose Place")
Mackenzie Astin 1973 - Actor
Melanie Chisholm (Melanie "Mel" Jayne Chisholm) 1976 - Singer (Spice Girls), known as "Sporty Spice"
Jason Biggs 1978 - Actor ("American Pie" movies)
Samantha Mathis 1978 - Actress
Steve Smith 1979 - Football player
Emily VanCamp 1986 - Actress ("Brothers & Sisters")
Malcolm David Kelley 1992 - Actor ("Lost")
Sullivan Sweeten 1995 - Actor ("Everybody Loves Raymond")
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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