CAD - May 14 Traditional Cache
Screechowl: Time to retire the series
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Cache A Day – May 14th
May 14th is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of May is National Barbeque Month and National Bike Month.
This second week of the month of May is National Children’s Book Week.
Today is National Underground America Day and National Chicken Dance Day.
Historical events occurring on May 14th include:
1264 - King Henry III was captured by his brother in law Simon deMontfort at the Battle of Lewes in France.
1509 - In the Battle of Agnadello, French defeated Venitians in Northern Italy.
1610 - French King Henri IV (Henri de Navarre) was assassinated by a fanatical monk, François Ravillac.
1643 - Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1727 - Thomas Gainsborough was born. He was an English painter.
1787 - Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
1796 - The first smallpox vaccination was given by Edward Jenner.
1804 - William Clark set off the famous expedition from Camp Dubois. A few days later, in St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis joined the group. The group was known as the "Corps of Discovery."
1811 - Paraguay gained independence from Spain.
1853 - Gail Borden applied for a patent for condensed milk.
1862 - The chronograph was patented by Adolphe Nicole.
1874 - McGill University and Harvard met at Cambridge, MA, for the first college football game to charge admission.
1878 - The name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough.
1879 - Thomas Edison incorporated the Edison Telephone Company of Europe.
1897 - "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Phillip Sousa was performed for the first time. It was at a ceremony where a statue of George Washington was unveiled.
1897 - Guglielmo Marconi made the first communication by wireless telegraph.
1904 - In St. Louis, the Olympic games were held. It was the first time for the games to be played in the U.S.
1913 - The Rockefeller Foundation was created by John D. Rockefeller with a gift of $100,000,000.
1935 - The Philippines ratified an independence agreement.
1940 - The Netherlands surrendered to Nazi Germany.
1942 - The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) was established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
1942 - "Lincoln Portrait" by Aaron Copland was performed for the first time by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
1942 - The British, while retreating from Burma, reached India.
1948 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel as British rule in Palestine came to an end.
1955 - The Warsaw Pact, a Easter European mutual-defense treaty, was signed in Poland by eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union.
1961 - A bus carrying Freedom Riders was bombed and burned in Alabama.
1969 - Jacqueline Susann’s second novel, "The Love Machine," was published by Simon and Schuster.
1973 - Skylab One was launched into orbit around Earth as the first U.S. manned space station.
1975 - U.S. forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members were released safely by Cambodia. About 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the military operation.
1980 - U.S. President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services.
1985 - The first McDonald's restaurant became the first fast-food business museum. It is located in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1989 - The final episode of "Family Ties" aired.
1992 - Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev addressed members of the U.S. Congress, appealing to them to pass a bill to aid the people of the former Soviet Union.
1996 - A tornado hit 80 villages in nothern Bangladesh. More than 440 people were killed.
1998 - The Associated Press marked its 150th anniversary.
1998 - The final episode of the TV series "Seinfeld" aired after nine years on NBC.
1999 - North Korea returned the remains of six U.S. soldiers that had been killed during the Korean War.
1999 - Jess Marlow received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2005 - The art exhibit "Gumby and Friends: The First 50 Years" opened at the Lynn House Gallery in Antioch, CA.
Born on May 14th
Thomas Gainsborough 1727 - Painter
Billie Dove 1903 - Actress
Skip Martin (Lloyd "Skip" Martin) 1916 - Musician
Norman Luboff 1917 - Music arranger, publisher
Richard Deacon 1921 - Actor
Al Porcino 1925 - Trumpet player
Patrice Munsel 1925 - Singer
Gump Worsley (Lorne John "Gump" Worsley) 1929 - Hockey goaltender
Laszlo Kovacs 1933 - Sprint canoer
Bobby Darin 1936 - Singer, actor
Dick Howser 1936 - Baseball player
Charlie Gracie (Charles Anthony Graci) 1936 - Musician, singer
Tony Perez (Atanasio Pérez Rigal) 1942 - Baseball player
Jack Bruce 1943 - Musician (Cream)
Derek Leckenby 1943 - Musician (Herman's Hermits)
George Lucas 1944 - Film producer, screenwriter, director ("Star Wars" movie series)
Troy Shondell 1944 - Singer
Francesca Annis 1944 - Actress
Gener Cornish 1945 - Musician (The Young Rascals)
Meg Foster (Megan Foster) 1948 - Actress
Season Hubley (Susan Hubley) 1951 - Actress
Robert Zemeckis 1952 - Film director, producer, screenwriter
David Byrne 1952 - Musician (Talking Heads)
Tom Cochrane 1953 - Musician
Tim Roth 1961 - Actor ("Resovoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction")
Ian Astbury 1962 - Musician (Cult)
C.C. DeVille 1962 - Musician (Poison)
Mike Inez 1966 - Musician (Alice in Chains) -
Fabrice Morvan 1966 - Singer (Milli Vanilli)
Cate Blanchett (Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett) 1969 - Actress, theatre director
Danny Wood 1969 - Singer (New Kids on the Block)
Freaky Tah 1971 - Musician (Lost Boyz)
Sophia Coppola 1971 - Director
Shanice (Shanice Lorraine Wilson-Knox) 1973 - Singer
Natalie Appleton 1973 - Musician (All Saints)
Roy Halladay 1977 - Baseball player
Amber Tamblyn 1983 - Actress ("General Hospital")
Frank Gore 1983 - Football player
Mark Zuckerberg 1984 - Founder of Facebook
Miranda Cosgrove 1993 - Actress ("iCarly," "Drake and Josh")
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).
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