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Cache A Day – April 16th
April 16th is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of April is National Card and Letter Writing Month.
This second week of the month of April is National Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week.
Today is National High Five Day, National Stress Awareness Day, National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day, National Trivia Day, and World Hemophilia Awareness Day.
Historical events occurring on April 16th include:
0069 - Otho committed suicide after being defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum.
0556 - Pelagius I began his reign as Catholic Pope.
1065 - The Norman Robert Guiscard took Bari. Five centuries of Byzantine rule in southern Italy ended.
1175 - Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, signed the Treaty of Montebello with the Lombard League.
1705 - Queen Anne of England knighted Isaac Newton.
1746 - The Duke of Cumberland defeated Bonnie Prince Charlie (and his Jacobites) at the battle of Culloden.
1818 - The U.S. Senate ratified Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border.
1851 - A lighthouse was swept away in a gale at Minot’s Ledge, MA.
1854 - San Salvador was destroyed by an earthquake.
1862 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis approved conscription act for white males between 18 and 35.
1862 - In the U.S., slavery was abolished by law in the District of Columbia.
1883 - Paul Kruger became president of the South African Republic.
1900 - The first book of postage stamps was issued. The two-cent stamps were available in books of 12, 24 and 48 stamps.
1905 - Andrew Carnegie donated $10,000,000 of personal money to set up the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
1912 - Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
1917 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution after years of exile.
1922 - Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, to set a women's record.
1922 - The Soviet Union and Germany signed the Treaty of Rapallo under which Germany recognized the Soviet Union and diplomatic and trade relations were restored.
1935 - "Fibber McGee and Molly" premiered.
1940 - The first no-hit, no-run game to be thrown on an opening day of the major league baseball season was earned by Bob Feller. The Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
1942 - The Island of Malta was awarded the George Cross in recognition for heroism under constant German air attack.
1944 - The destroyer USS Laffey survived immense damage from attacks by 22 Japanese aircraft off Okinawa.
1945 - American troops entered Nuremberg, Germany.
1947 - The Zoomar lens, invented by Dr. Frank Back, was demonstrated in New York City. It was the first lens to exhibit zooming effects.
1947 - In Texas City, TX, the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up. The explosions and resulting fires killed 576 people.
1948 - In Paris, the Organization for European Economic Co-operation was set up.
1951 - 75 people were killed when the British submarine Affray sank in the English Channel.
1953 - The British royal yacht Britannia was launched.
1962 - Walter Cronkite began anchoring "The CBS Evening News".
1968 - The Pentagon announced that troops would begin coming home from Vietnam.
1968 - Major league baseball’s longest night game was played. The 24 innings took six hours, six minutes to play.
1972 - Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon. It was the fifth manned moon landing.
1972 - Two giants pandas arrived in the U.S. from China.
1975 - The Khmer Rouge Rebels won control of Cambodia after a five years of civil war. They renamed the country Kampuchea and began a reign of terror.
1978 - In Orissa, India, 180 people died when a tornado hit.
1982 - Queen Elizabeth proclaimed Canada's new constitution in effect. The act severed the last colonial links with Britain.
1985 - Mickey Mantle was reinstated after being banned from baseball for several years.
1987 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sternly warned U.S. radio stations to watch the use of indecent language on the airwaves.
1987 - The U.S. Patent Office began allowing the patenting of new animals created by genetic engineering.
1992 - Italian financier Carlo de Benedetti and 32 others were convicted of fraud in connection with the 1982 collapse of Banco Ambrosiano.
1992 - The House ethics committee listed 303 current and former lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts.
1995 - The European Union and Canada agreed to protect threatened fish stocks in the north Atlantic.
1996 - Britain's Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, the Duchess of York, announced that they were in the process of getting a divorce.
1996 - An Italian court found former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi guilty on charges of corruption. He was sentenced to eight years and three months in prison.
1999 - Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement from the National Hockey League (NHL).
Born on April 16th
Hans Sloane 1660 - Doctor, naturalist, instrumental in founding of the British Museum
Sir John Franklin 1786
Flora Batson 1864
Jose de Diego 1866 - Patriot and political leader of Puerto Rico, April 16 is a legal holiday in Puerto Rico in his honor
Wilbur Wright 1867 - Aviator, one of the Wright Brothers
John Millington Synge 1871 - Poet, playwright
Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin) 1889 - Actor, comedian
Les Tremayne (Henning) 1913 - Actor ("The War of the Worlds", "The Slime People")
John Hodiak 1914 - Actor
Spike Milligan 1918
Merce Cunningham 1919 - Dancer, choreographer
Sir Peter Ustinov 1921 - Actor
Kingsly Amis 1922 - Novelist
Bennie Green 1923 - Musician, lyricist
Barry Nelson 1920 - Actor ("Airport", "The Shining"), first actor to portray Ian Flemming's James Bond.
Henri Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini) 1924 - Composer (themes for "The Pink Panther", "Peter Gunn")
Joseph Alois Ratzinger 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
Peter Mark Richman 1927
Edie Adams 1929 - Actress
Ed Townshend 1929
Roy Hamilton 1929 - Singer
Herbie Mann (Soloman) 1930 - Jazz musician,
Ike Pappas 1933 - Singer
Bobby Vinton 1935 - Singer
Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien) 1939 - Singer
Queen Margrethe II 1940 - Queen of Denmark
Jim (James Reynold) Lonborg 1942 - Baseball player
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) 1947 - Basketball player
Gerry Rafferty 1947 - Singer, songwriter
Bill Spooner 1949 - Musician (The Tubes)
Peter Garrett 1953 - Singer (Midnight Oil)
Jay O. Sanders 1953 - Actor
Ellen Barkin 1954 - Actress ("Eddie and the Cruisers")
Jimmy Osmond 1963 - Singer (The Osmonds), the youngest Osmond
David Pirner 1964 - Musician (Soul Asylum)
John Cryer 1965 - Actor ("Superman 4: The Quest for Peace", "Pretty in Pink", "Two and a Half Men")
Martin Lawrence 1965 - Actor, comedian
Dan Rieser 1966 - Musician (Marcy Playground)
Selena Quintanilla 1971 - Singer
Peter Billingsley 1972 - Actor ("A Christmas Story")
Lukas Haas 1976 - Actor
Samantha Char 1995
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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