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Cache A Day – April 15th
April 15th is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining until the end of the year.
The entire month of April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
This second week of the month of April is National Pan American Week.
Today is National Income Tax Day, McDonalds Day, Take a Wild Guess Day, and That Sucks Day. Three of those four days fit nicely. I suppose thanks to Income Tax Day, all you can afford to do to celebrate is take a trip through the dollar menu at Mickey D’s.
Historical events occurring on April 15th include:
1784 - The first balloon was flown in Ireland.
1794 - "Courrier Francais" became the first French daily newspaper to be published in the U.S.
1813 - U.S. troops under James Wilkinson attacked the Spanish-held city of Mobile that would be in the future state of Alabama.
1817 - The first American school for the deaf was opened in Hartford, CT.
1850 - The city of San Francisco was incorporated.
1858 - At the Battle of Azimghur, the Mexicans defeated Spanish loyalists.
1861 - U.S. President Lincoln mobilized the Federal army.
1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth.
1871 - "Wild Bill" Hickok became the marshal of Abilene, Kansas.
1880 - William Gladstone became Prime Minister of England.
1892 - The General Electric Company was organized.
1899 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Portland Cement Company.
1912 - The ocean liner Titanic sank at 2:27 a.m. in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more than 700 people survived.
1917 - The British defeated the Germans at the battle of Arras.
1919 - British troops killed 400 Indians at Amritsar, India.
1923 - Insulin became generally available for people suffering with diabetes.
1934 - In the comic strip "Blondie," Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead welcomed a baby boy, Alexander. The child would be nicknamed, Baby Dumpling.
1940 - French and British troops landed at Narvik, Norway.
1945 - During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
1947 - Jackie Robinson played his first major league baseball game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Previously he had only appeared in exhibition games.
1952 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed the official Japanese peace treaty.
1952 - The first B-52 prototype was tested in the air.
1953 - Pope Pius XII gave his approval of psychoanalysis but warned of possible abuses.
1953 - Charlie Chaplin surrendered his U.S. re-entry permit rather than face proceedings by the U.S. Justice Department. Chaplin was accused of sympathizing with Communist groups.
1955 - Ray Kroc started the McDonald's restaurant chain.
1956 - The worlds’ first, all-color TV station was dedicated. It was WNBQ-TV in Chicago and is now WMAQ-TV.
1956 - General Motors announced that the first free piston automobile had been developed.
1959 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro began a U.S. goodwill tour.
1960 - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was organized at Shaw University.
1967 - Richard Speck was found guilty of murdering eight student nurses.
1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opened.
1984 - Ten members of a family were found murdered in their home in New York City. An infant was found crawling among the corpses.
1986 - U.S. F-111 warplanes attacked Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5, 1986.
1987 - In Northhampton, MA, Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman and 13 others were acquitted on civil disobedience charges related with a CIA protest.
1989 - Students in Beijing launched a series of pro democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang. The protests led to the Tienanmen Square massacre.
1989 - In Sheffield, England, 93 people were killed and 180 were injured at a soccer game at Hillsborough Stadium when a crowd surged into an overcrowded standing area.
1994 - The World Trade Organization was established.
1997 - Christopher Reeve received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 - Pol Pot died at the age of 73. The leader of the Khmer Rouge regime thereby evaded prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians.
1999 - In Algeria, former Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected president. All of the opposition candidates claimed that the vote was fraudulent and withdrew from the election.
1999 - In Rawalpindi, Pakistan, a panel of two Lahore High Court judges convicted former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, of corruption.
2000 - 600 anti-IMF (International Monetary Fund) protesters were arrested in Washington, DC, for demonstrating without a permit.
Born on April 15th
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - Artist ("Mona Lisa", "The Last Supper")
Charles Peale 1741 - Artist, portrait painter, primarily created works of colonial and American Revolutionary War figures
Henry James 1843 - Author ("The Turn of the Screw", "The Portrait of a Lady")
Thomas Benton 1889 - Artist
Bessie Smith 1894 - Blues singer
Hans Conried 1917 - Actor ("Bus Stop", "Oh! God: Book 2")
Jim Timmens 1920 - Composer, jazz musician, musical director
Michael Ansara 1922
Herb Pomeroy 1930 - Musician, bandleader
Roy Clark 1933 - Country musician, singer
Bob Luman 1937 - Singer
Claudia Cardinale 1939 - Actress ("The Pink Panther")
Reginald Smith (Marty Wilde) 1939 - Singer, father of singer Kim Wilde
Willie (William Henry) Davis 1940 - Baseball player
Clarence Satchell 1940 - Musician (The Ohio Plyers)
Woody (Woodrow Thompson) Fryman 1940 - Baseball player
Walt Hazzard 1942 - Basketball player
Julie Sommars 1942 - Actress ("Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo")
Allan Clarke 1942 - Musician (Hollies)
Dave Edmunds 1944 - Musician (Rockpile)
Ted Sizemore 1945 - Baseball player
Amy Wright 1950 - Actress ("The Deer Hunter", "The Scarlet Letter")
Dick (Richard Louis) Sharon 1950 - Baseball player
Michael Tucci 1950
Heloise (Ponce Kiah Marchelle Heloise Cruse Evans) 1951 - Newspaper columnist, daughter of original Heloise
Pete Shelley 1955 - Musician (Buzzcocks)
Evelyn Ashford 1957 - Track athlete, 4-time Olympic gold medalist
Emma Thompson 1959 - Actress
Samantha Fox 1966 - Singer
Graeme Clark 1966 - Musician (Wet Wet Wet)
Ed O'Brien 1968 - Musician (Radiohead)
Seth Rogan 1982 - Actor, writer ("Knocked Up", "Superbad")
Emma Watson 1990 - Actress ("Harry Potter" movie series)
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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