1960 Tribute to Mud Dancer Mystery Cache

Important Note:  The original GZ was destroyed by land developers.  If you solved this puzzle before 8/25/20, subtract 37 from the Longitude and look for a micro instead of a regular sized cache.  If you are solving this now, go with your solution and Certitude will show you the correct final location.

The cache is not at the listed coordinates but that is a good spot to make your approach. Once you have solved the puzzle you can find good parking by adding 204 to the latitude and adding 59 to the longitude.

Mud Dancer is a great friend to all geocachers and 1960 is a special year.  To celebrate, a little look back in history and a quiz to determine the cache location and commemorate all those trips around the sun. I remember those days, though not all of the incidents that happened.

Advance notice has been provided to Mud Dancer

The cache can be located at coordinates:

North - AB CD.EFG      West - HI JK.LMN

The Quiz:

All the following events happened, just not in 1960.  Identify the 1960 event in each month (a ‘10’ answer equates to ‘0’)

January (A):

1. Charles De Gaulle is inaugurated as the first president of the French Fifth Republic.
2. One Hundred and One Dalmatians Released in Cinemas.
3. “Ham” the chimp rocketed into space by N.A.S.A.
4. John F. Kennedy announces presidential candidacy.
5. Fidel Castro arrives in Havana.
6. Motown Records founded by Barry Gordy.
7. Portland Spy Ring uncovered in London.
8. B-52 carrying two nuclear bombs crashes in North Carolina.
9. Soviet Union Conducts first census after WWII.
10. Pope John XXIII announces Second Vatican Council will be convened in Rome.

February (B):

1. Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba.
2. CERN particle accelerator becomes operational in Switzerland.
3. Hassan II pronounced King of Morocco.
4. First weather satellite, Vanguard 2, is launched.
5. Switzerland turns down women’s suffrage.
6. Women in Nepal vote for the first time.
7. Portuguese Colonial War begins in Angola.
8. Beatles perform for first time in the Cavern Club.
9. Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
10. Cyprus granted independence from Great Britain.

March (C):

1. Busch Gardens opens in Tampa.
2. Barbie Doll debuts in the U.S.
3. Peace Corps is established.
4. 23^rd Amendment is ratified by Congress.
5. Lucille Ball files for divorce from Desi Arnaz. 
6. Hawaii granted Statehood.
7. Dalai Lama escapes Tibet into India.
8. Project Mohole is undertaken off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
9. Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
10. Pioneer 4 becomes first American object to escape dominance by Earth's gravity.

April (D):

1. The Saint Lawrence Seaway linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean officially opens to shipping.
2. Judy Garland performs in a legendary comeback concert, at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
3. The 31st Academy Awards ceremony is held.
4. Sierra Leone becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
5. Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space.
6.  NASA announces its selection of seven military pilots to become the first U.S. astronauts.
7. Ben-Hur wins Best Picture Oscar.
8. Liu Shaoqi as Chairman of the People's Republic of China.
9. In Portugal, a coup attempt against António de Oliveira Salazar fails.
10. The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

May (E):

1. British Empire Day is renamed Commonwealth Day.
2. President Kennedy announces his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.
3. Gypsy: A Musical Fable, starring Ethel Merman in her last new musical, opens on Broadway.
4. A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama.
5. Alabama Governor John Patterson declares martial law.
6. Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus.
7. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, despot of the Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush.
8. Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space.
9. Park Chung-Hee takes over in a military coup, in South Korea.
10. American Lockheed U-2 spy plane. Its pilot, Francis Gary Powers of the Central Intelligence Agency, is captured.

June (F):

1. Roy Orbison’s Running Scared becomes number 1 hit song.
2. The British protectorate ends in Kuwait, and it becomes an emirate.
3. Johnny Horton’s The Battle of New Orleans becomes number 1 hit song.
4. The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
5. Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public.
6. West Side Story is Best Motion Picture.
7. The Antarctic Treaty comes into effect.
8. Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev requests asylum in France.
9. Singapore becomes a self-governing crown colony of Britain.
10. Japanese prime minister Nobusuke Kishi announces his resignation.

July (G)

1. Baseball legend Ty Cobb dies at the age of 74.
2. Australia's longest running children's TV series, Mr. Squiggle, first airs.
3. The first skull of Australopithecus is discovered by Louis Leakey.
4. Paul Anka’s Lonely Boy tops the Billboard charts.
5. Hermione Baddeley wins Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Diary of Anne Frank.
6. Francis Chichester in his yacht, Gipsy Moth III, crosses the Atlantic Ocean solo in a new record of just 40 days.
7. Soviet submarine K-19 suffers a reactor leak in the North Atlantic.
8. With the earlier admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state, the 49-star flag of the U.S. debuts.
9. The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game tie occurs at Fenway Park.
10. The first Israeli rocket, Shavit 2, is launched.

August (H):

1. Explorer 6 sends the first picture of Earth from orbit.
2. The Six Flags Over Texas theme park officially opens to the public.
3. Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison in Kenya.
4. Elvis Presley’s A Big Hunk o’ Love becomes number 1 song.
5. Cyprus joins United Nations.
6. Cyprus gains Independence.
7. The newly named Beatles begin a 48-night residency at the Indra Club in Hamburg, West Germany.
8. Black Orpheus is Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film.
9. Berlin Wall construction begins.
10. Hawaii admitted as 50^th State.

September (I):

1. United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash.
2. Simone Signoret wins Best Actress Oscar for Room at the Top.
3. The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh.
4. Bonanza premieres, first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
5. The Xerox 914, the first plain paper copier, is introduced to the public.
6. The Focolare Movement opens its first North American center in New York.
7. Muhammad Ali (at this time Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in light-heavyweight boxing.
8. A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic.
9. Ceylon's prime minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike is assassinated.
10. Typhoon Vera hits central Honshū, Japan.

October (J):

1. Ray Charles’ Hit the Road Jack becomes Billboard’s number 1 song.
2. The Drifters’ Save the Last Dance for Me becomes Billboard’s number 1 song.
3. Ray Charles’ Georgia on My Mind becomes Billboard’s number 1 song.
4. Rod Serling's classic anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres.
5. Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season.
6. Jack Lemmon nominated for Best Actor for his role in Some Like It Hot but loses.
7. Mongolia and Mauritania join the United Nations.
8. Founding of the Boston Patriots, AFL American football club.
9. Fahrettin Özdilek becomes the acting prime minister of Turkey.
10. The 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China is celebrated.

November (K):

1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is first published.
2. MGM releases widescreen Technicolor version of Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston.
3. Robert White records a world air speed record of 4,093 mph.
4. Jimmy Dean’s Big Bad John is Billboard’s number 1 song.
5. Judgement at Nuremberg wins Best Screenplay based on Material from Another Medium.
6. U.S. President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
7. The MOSFET transistor is invented and goes on to become the most widely manufactured device in history.
8. The U.S. government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith.
9. Pirates defeat the Yankees in the seventh game of the World Series
10. Mauritania becomes independent.

December (L):

1. The Marvelette’s Please Mr. Postman becomes the number 1 song.
2. Sophia Loren wins Best Actress Oscar for Two Women.
3. The Tokens’ The Lion Sleeps Tonight becomes the number 1 song.
4. An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentences Adolf Eichmann to death.
5. Malpasset Dam in southern France collapses.
6. Tanganyika gains independence.
7. The Wizard of Oz is rerun a year after its previous telecast, beginning a tradition of annual telecasts.
8. Walt Disney's first Technicolor musical, Babes in Toyland is released, but flops at the box office.
9. U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives support to the Volta Dam project in Ghana.
10. Jack Lemmon wins Best Actor Oscar for Some Like It Hot.

Bonus 1 (M) – Only one of these is true:

1. Tye Sheridan played the title character in the 2012 movie Mud.
2. Frank Zappa wrote about mud shark dancing in his song The Mud Shark.
3. Preston Karlo was a member of the Mud Pack.
4. Tiger Paws was a track on the Greatest Hits album by the British band Mud.
5. Harcourt Fenton Mudd was a character in one original Star Trek episode.
6. The Dancing Mud pots of Rotorua are on the South Island of New Zealand.
7. Mud Dancing is an episode in season 3 of Q Wunder.
8. Mud Dancing was the original title of a Patrick Swayze movie.
9. McKinley Morgenfield produced a studio album titled Muddy Waters sings "Big Bill".
10. Burt Reynolds starred in The Man Who Loved Mud Dancing.

Bonus 2 (N) – Only one of these is true:

1. Mud Dancer’s 1000^th find was The Natural Bridge.
2. Mud Dancer plays Bridge and always sits at the WSW position.
3. The 4 types of Dental bridges are traditional, cantilever, implant-supported, and Delaware.
4. The longest Arch bridge is the Solkan Bridge in Slovenia.
5. The reputed shortest international bridge is 33 feet long.
6. The battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge lasted 3 days.
7. The Sydney Harbor Bridge was patterned after NYC’s Hell’s Gate Bridge.
8. Bernhard Wicki’s American version of Die Brücke is released in 1960.
9. Shortest Span Bridging is specified in the IEEE 820.1aq standard.
10. London Bridge is in London, of course.

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