CAD - March 18 Traditional Geocache
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Cache A Day – March 18th
March 18th is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 289 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of March is National Social Worker's Month.
Today is National Forgive Mom & Dad Day, National Supreme Sacrifice Day, National Awkward Moments Day, and Have Lunch at Cheli’s Chili Day.
Historical events occurring on March 18th include:
0037 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
1123 - The first Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opened in Rome.
1190 - Crusaders killed 57 Jews in Bury St. Edmonds England.
1532 - The English parliament banned payments by English church to Rome.
1541 - Hernando de Soto observed the first recorded flood of the Mississippi River.
1673 - Lord Berkley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers.
1692 - William Penn was deprived of his governing powers.
1766 - Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
1813 - David Melville patented the gas streetlight.
1818 - The U.S. Congress approved the first pensions for government service.
1834 - The first railroad tunnel in the U.S. was completed. The work was in Pennsylvania.
1850 - Henry Wells & William Fargo founded American Express.
1865 - The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourned for the last time.
1881 - Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opened in Madison Square Gardens.
1891 - Britain became linked to the continent of Europe by telephone.
1899 - Phoebe, a moon of the planet Saturn, was discovered.
1902 - In Turkey, the Sultan granted a German syndicate the first concession to access Baghdad by rail.
1905 - Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were married.
1909 - Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short wave transmitter to become the first person to broadcast as a "ham" operator.
1910 - The first opera by a U.S. composer performed at the Met in New York City.
1911 - Theodore Roosevelt opened the Roosevelt Dam in Phoenix, AZ. It was the largest dam in the U.S. at the time.
1911 - North Dakota enacted a hail insurance law.
1916 - Russia countered the Verdun assault with an attack at Lake Naroch. The Russians lost 100,000 men and the Germans lost 20,000.
1917 - The Germans sank the U.S. ships, City of Memphis, Vigilante and the Illinois, without any warning.
1919 - The Order of DeMolay was established in Kansas City.
1920 - Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar.
1922 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience in India. He served only 2 years of the sentence.
1922 - Princeton and Yale played the first intercollegiate indoor polo championship.
1931 - Schick Inc. displayed the first electric shaver.
1939 - Georgia ratified the Bill of Rights amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1940 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the Brenner Pass. The Italian dictator agreed to join in Germany's war against France and Britain during the meeting.
1942 - The third military draft began in the U.S. because of World War II.
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 50 goals.
1948 - France, Great Britain, and Benelux signed the Treaty of Brussels.
1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was ratified.
1954 - RKO Pictures was sold for $23,489,478. It became the first motion picture studio to be owned by an individual. The person was Howard Hughes.
1959 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
1961 - The Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy was introduced.
1963 - France performed an underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria.
1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Miranda decision concerning legal council for defendants.
1965 - Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to spacewalk when he left the Voskhod II space capsule while in orbit around the Earth. He was outside the spacecraft for about 20 minutes.
1966 - Scott Paper began selling paper dresses for $1.
1968 - The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve.
1970 - The NFL selected Wilson to be the official football and scoreboard as official time.
1974 - Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their five-month embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1980 - The Vostok rocket exploded on the launch pad killing 50.
1981 - The Buffalo Sabres set an NHL record when they scored 9 goals in one period against Toronto.
1986 - Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson.
1986 - The U.S. Treasury Department announced that a clear, polyester thread was to be woven into bills in an effort to thwart counterfeiters.
1989 - A 4,400-year-old mummy was discovered at the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
1990 - The first free elections took place in East Germany.
1990 - The 32-day lockout of baseball players ended.
1992 - Leona Hemsly was sentenced to 4 years in prison for tax evasion.
1992 - White South Africans voted for constitutional reforms that would give legal equality to blacks.
2003 - China's new president, Hu Jintao, announced that his country must deepen reforms and raise living standards of workers and farmers.
2008 – NLMCP gets tricked into caching for the first time while out for lunch for the first time with Screechowl. Two years later, and still going strong! Woo Hoo!
Born on March 18th
Grover Cleveland 1837
Rudolf Diesel 1858
Neville Chamberlin 1869
Edward Everett Horton 1886
William H. Johnson 1901
Smiley (Lester) Burnette 1911
Andy Granatelli 1923
Peter Graves 1926 - Actor
John Kander 1927 - Composer ("Chicago")
George Plimpton 1927
John Updike 1932 - Author
Frederick W. de Klerk 1936 - Former South African president
Mark Donohue 1937
Shashi Kapoor 1938
Charlie Pride 1938 - Country singer
Margie Bowes 1941
Wilson Pickett 1941 - Singer
Leslie Parrish (Fleck) 1943
Kevin Dobson 1944 - Actor
Barrie (B.J.) Wilson (Procol Harum) 1947
Brad Dourif 1950 - Actor
John Hartman (The Doobie Brothers) 1950
Ingemar Stenmark 1956
Irene Cara 1959 - Singer
James McMurtry 1962
Thomas Ian Griffith 1962 - Actor
Jeff LaBar 1963 - Musician (Cinderella)
Vanessa Williams 1963 - Singer, actress
Bonnie Blair 1964 - Olympic gold medal speed skater
Scott Saunders 1964 - Country musician (Sons of the Desert)
Jerry Cantrell 1966 - Musician (Alice in Chains)
Miki Berenyi 1967 - Musician (Lush)
Queen Latifah 1970 - Rapper, actress
Stuart Zender 1974 - Musician (Jamiroquai)
Brian Griese 1974 - Football player
Devin Lima 1977 - Singer (LFO)
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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