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Cache A Day – May 15th
May 15th is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 230 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of May is National Foster Care Month.
This second week of the month of May is National Stuttering Awareness Week.
Today is National Chocolate Chip Day, Nylon Stockings Day, Straw Hat Day, and Armed Forces Day!
Historical events occurring on May 15th include:
1602 - Cape Cod was discovered by Bartholomew Gosnold.
1614 - An aristocratic uprising in France ended with the treaty of St.Menehould.
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonics law.
1702 - The War of Spanish Succession began.
1768 - Under the Treaty of Versailles, France purchased Corsica from Genoa.
1795 - Napoleon entered the Lombardian capital of Milan.
1849 - Neapolitan troops entered Palermo, and were in possession of Sicily.
1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," was born.
1862 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1916 - U.S. Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder.
1918 - Regular airmail service between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, began under the direction of the Post Office Department, which later became the U.S. Postal Service.
1926 - Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth were forced down in Alaska after a four-day flight over an icecap. Ice had begun to form on the dirigible Norge.
1926 - The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The NHL also announced that Chicago and Detroit would be joining the league in November.
1930 - Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio began his historic major league baseball hitting streak of 56 games.
1942 - Gasoline rationing began in the U.S. The limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles.
1948 - Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence.
1951 - AT&T became the first corporation to have one million stockholders.
1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1958 - Sputnik III, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.
1963 - The last Project Mercury space flight was launched.
1964 - The Smothers Brothers, Dick and Tom, gave their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1970 - U.S. President Nixon appointed America's first two female generals.
1970 - Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.
1975 - The merchant ship U.S. Mayaguez was recaptured from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.
1980 - The first transcontinental balloon crossing of the United States took place.
1983 - In Boston,MA, the Madison Hotel was destroyed by implosion.
1988 - Soviet forces began their withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet forces had been there for more than eight years.
1990 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record.
1997 - The Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.
1999 - The Russian parliament was unable a attain enough votes to impeach President Boris Yeltsin.
Born on May 15th
Lyman Frank Baum 1856 - Author of children's books ("The Wonderful Wizard of Oz")
Pierre Curie 1859 - Physicist
Katherine Anne Porter 1890 - Journalist, essayist, short story writer
Joseph Cotten (Joseph Cheshire Cotten) 1905 - Actor
James Mason (James Neville Mason) 1909 - Actor
Constance Cummings 1910 - Actress
Max Frisch 1911 - Architect, playwright, novelist
Eddy Arnold (Richard Edward Arnold) 1918 - Country singer
Ellis Larkins 1923 - Musician
Richard Avedon 1923 - Photographer
Anthony Shaffer 1926 - Playwright, novelist, screenwriter
Jasper Johns 1930 - Artist
Wavy Gravy (Hugh Nanton Romney) 1936 - Entertainer, peace activist
Paul Zindel 1936 - Playwright, author
Anna Maria Alberghetti 1936 - Opera singer, actress
Trini Lopez (Trinidad López III) 1937 - Singer, guitarist
Madeleine Albright 1937 - First woman to become a U.S. Secretary of State
Lenny Welch 1938 - Singer
Paul Rudd 1940 - Actor
Lainie Kazan 1940 - Actress, singer
K.T. Oslin (Kay Toinette Oslin) 1942 - Country singer, songwriter
Graham Goble 1947 - Musician (Little River Band)
Brian Eno 1948 - Musician (Roxy Music)
Chazz Palminteri (Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri) 1951 - Actor, writer
Pat Hickey 1953 - Hockey player
George Brett 1953 - Baseball player
Mike Oldfield (Michael Gordon "Mike" Oldfield) 1953 - Musician, composer
Lee Horsley 1955 - Actor
Emmitt Smith 1969 - Football player
Prince Be 1970 - (PM Dawn)
David Charvet 1972 - Singer, actor
Ahmet Rodan Zappa 1974 - Musician
Amy Chow 1978 - Comedienne
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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