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March 28, 2018 12:01 AM

March 28 - 1911: The only bidder for Cape Cod Canal offered less than $12M

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2007: Cape Cod murder victim inspires new law

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March 27, 2018 12:01 AM

March 27 - 1946: Cape Cod windmills praised as examples to emulate

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2007: Reports of flies at an outpatient clinic in Hyannis

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March 26, 2018 12:01 AM

March 26 - 1602: Gosnold leaves the old sod for Cape Cod and history

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On this day he sailed from Falmouth, England, and stopped in Provincetown, and named the Cape for the abundance of Cod encountered here

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March 25, 2018 12:02 AM

March 25 - 1977: Suspicious fire destroys Playhouse-on-the-Wharf in Provincetown

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2011: US Mint unveils $1 Wampanoag coin

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March 24, 2018 12:01 AM

March 24 - 1923: Harwich robbers make getaway on train

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1953: Cape Cod Thruway proposed

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March 23, 2018 12:01 AM

March 23 - 1977: Connecticut offers seceding Islanders a new home

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2007: Disaster aid for red tide is $1,400

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March 22, 2018 12:01 AM

March 22 - 1905: The day the whales came back to Cape Cod Bay

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They had not been seen in the bay in a quarter of a century

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March 21, 2018 12:01 AM

March 21 - 1939: Chatham Town Meeting opposes federal takeover of Monomoy

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1957: First day of spring snowstorm knocks out utilities

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March 20, 2018 12:01 AM

March 20 - 1950: 103-year-old Cape Codder dies

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1999: Four dozen dolphins come ashore on Lower Cape--three survive. 2007: Pilgrim Nuclear shut down by leak. 2007: Therese Murray about to become first woman Senate president

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March 19, 2018 12:01 AM

March 19 - 1972: Jumbo oil tanker adrift 50 miles off Cape Cod

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1895: Crew of the Schooner B.H. Jones saved by the Gypsum Prince. 2007: Ghosts in the thicket, tuna catch falls

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March 18, 2018 12:01 AM

March 18 - 1987: Coast Guard rescues 37 Russians

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Rescued shortly before their ship sank. 2007: New regs will reduce coyote population here

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March 17, 2018 12:01 AM

March 17 - 1977: Huge oil spill threatens Cape's economy

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2000: Corporate jet overshoots runway on St. Pat's day. 2007: Cape Cod gets a new smell

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March 16, 2018 12:01 AM

March 16 - 1967: Granite from Falmouth used in rebuilt JFK gravesite

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1970: Congress authorizes National Seashore funds. 1926: The Space Age was launched in the Bay State

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March 15, 2018 12:01 AM

March 15 - 1924: One of the last six-masted schooners is lost off Cape Cod

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1820: The day Massachusetts lost Maine. 2007: Vessel severely wounds endangered right whale

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March 14, 2018 12:01 AM

March 14 - 1974: Earthquake shakes the Cape

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The day the earth shook here

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March 13, 2018 12:01 AM

March 13, 1884: The day Cape Cod workers went on a "Food Strike"

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1884: Canal workers stage walk-out over bad food; 2007: Gas may reach $3 by summer

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March 12, 2018 12:01 AM

March 12 - 1947: Tribe looking for a new chief

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Mashpee chief quits, charges there were "not 20 real Indians" in this town ~ Another former chief said, "Sooner or later, (the tribe) will fold up like a tepee and pass into history."