Cape Cod History

Cape Cod History
September 25, 2018 12:01 AM
September 25 - 1938: Looting on Cape hampers clean-up after surprise hurricane
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1690: America's first newspaper published, British authorities "shoot the messenger"
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September 24, 2018 12:01 AM
September 24 - 1967: Bike trails opened on Cape Cod
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1998: Bill Koch counts his coins and weeps
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September 23, 2018 12:01 AM
September 23 - 1996: JFK Jr. marries Carolyn Bessette
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"America's Most Eligible Bachelor" finally tied the knot
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September 22, 2018 12:01 AM
September 22 - 1979: Oil drilling OKed off Cape
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Cape Sanctuary turned down, oil leases start on George's Bank
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September 21, 2018 12:01 AM
September 21 - 2001: The story of Flight 11 from Boston
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It skimmed over New England to New York and its doom
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September 20, 2018 12:01 AM
September 20 - 1938: The 'wind that shook the world' kills 700
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Nobody saw it coming, and Hitler blew it off the front page
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September 19, 2018 12:01 AM
September 19 - 1996: Lutheran church treasurer robs his church to visit Cape Cod
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Thefts alleged to cover $100,000 credit card expenses, finance his sons' college educations at Yale University and Boston College
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September 18, 2018 12:01 AM
September 18 - 1990: Martha's Vineyard sells sobriety
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Project is an attempt to learn how to mobilize a local community around drunk-driving prevention
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September 17, 2018 12:01 AM
September 17 - 1976: Woods Hole: a kind of purgatory
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1911: "An unconventional summer among the naturalists at Woods Hole"
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September 16, 2018 12:01 AM
September 16 - 1915: Navy tests new "giant submarine" off Provincetown
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Cape Cod chosen as testing area for new war machine
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September 15, 2018 12:01 AM
September 15 - 1988: Port of call for a million birds, a few seals and an occasional shark
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Monomoy is crowded with migrating birds this month
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September 14, 2018 12:01 AM
September 14 - 1966: Two in rowboat leave Orleans for England
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Two English rowers successfully cross the Atlantic from Cape Cod
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September 13, 2018 12:01 AM
September 13 - 1938: Unnamed Hurricane hits Cape without warning
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Hurricane sweeps coast. 80 die in New England flood
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September 12, 2018 12:01 AM
September 12 - 2005: Hurricane Katrina refugees arrive here
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Cape hosts over 200 at Mass. Military Reservatiopn in Bourne
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September 11, 2018 12:02 AM
September 11 - 2001: F-15 fighter jets scramble from Otis after first tower hit
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2001: Massachusetts pilot on AA Flight 11 on 9-11. 1985: The worker housing squeeze begins
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September 10, 2018 12:01 AM
September 10 - 1987: Cape unemployment rate under 2 percent
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Cape's growth brings difficulty finding employees; unemployment rate at 1.8 percent
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September 9, 2018 12:01 AM
September 9 - 2003: Melissa Gosule's death suit
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AAA settles negligence lawsuit with family of murder victim
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September 8, 2018 12:01 AM
September 8 - 1765: Chatham's smallpox epidemic's forgotten hero
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37 die, 17 in one family. Dr. Samuel Lord dies fighting the disease
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September 7, 2018 12:01 AM
September 7 - 1963: JFK meets with the opponent he didn't live to run against
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John Kennedy and Barry Goldwater chat at the White House
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September 6, 2018 12:02 AM
September 6 - 1930: Fires rage on both sides of the Cape Cod Canal
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1620: The Mayflower leaves England for Virginia. 2003: The day Cape Wind won the first round
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September 5, 2018 12:01 AM
September 5 - 1961: The national press began noticing the "after Labor Day" season
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The rest of the world discovers our "Shoulder Season"
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September 4, 2018 12:01 AM
September 4 - 1990: The day Cape Cod got "Commissioned"
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Cape Cod Commission is voted in
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September 3, 2018 12:01 AM
September 3 - 1991: Category Three Hurricane Bob ruins the off-season for Cape Cod
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Hurricane Bob reshapes Cape Cod
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September 2, 2018 12:01 AM
September 2 - 1996: 20-mile back-up at bridges as visitor's flee storm's path
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Hurricane Edouard cuts short Cape's Labor Day Weekend
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September 1, 2018 12:01 AM
September 1 - 1993: The New York Times "discovers" Eastham
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Cape Cod's little secret
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