Cape Cod History

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May 22, 2018 12:01 AM
May 22 - 1912: Hyannis girl's murderer electrocuted
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Clarence Virgil Thompson Richeson was put to death in the electric chair in Charlestown Prison at 12:17 o'clock
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May 21, 2018 12:02 AM
May 21 - 1833: Wampanoags demand self-rule
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1962: The day southern segregationists sent Black Americans to Hyannis ~ 1960 JFK wins Oregon, comes to Cape Cod to celebrate
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May 20, 2018 12:01 AM
May 20 - 1963: President Kennedy creates a Summer White House here
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2007: Babesiosis is spreading, and hard to diagnose
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May 19, 2018 12:01 AM
May 19 - 1896: Worst fire in Cape Cod History
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1713: Boston poor riot for bread
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May 18, 2018 12:01 AM
May 18 - 1967: Canal pilots end service
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1986: Where in the world is Truro center? 2007: State Trooper busted for running Oxycontin ring
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May 17, 2018 12:01 AM
May 17 - 1986: Summer labor panic
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2008: Sen. Ted Kennedy rushed to hospital. 1954: School segregation ends
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May 16, 2018 12:02 AM
May 16 - 1935: Marconi Station in Wellfleet and WCC in Chatham aid in schooner's rescue
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Fishing schooner jams prop in nets 100 miles east of Cape Cod
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May 15, 2018 12:01 AM
May 15 - 1602: Cape Cod was named today
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Bartholomew Gosnold sailed into Provincetown Harbor and named the peninsula "Cape Cod" for the huge schools of fish sighted
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May 14, 2018 12:01 AM
May 14 - 1978: Entire Provincetown postal staff arrested
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1990: Cape Cod was an auction lovers' cornucopia along with under $5 lunches
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May 13, 2018 12:01 AM
May 13 - 1948: Kathleen Kennedy, 28, Marchioness of Hartington, dies in plane crash
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2005: Department of Defense closes Otis Air Force Base
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May 12, 2018 12:01 AM
May 12 - 1997 : Brother's scandal, ex-wife's new book hurts Joseph Kennedy II in the polls
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2007: Bourne man's Boston Pops brawl
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May 11, 2018 12:01 AM
May 11 - 1908: Marconi sends messages 1,700 miles to sea from Cape Cod
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2002: Aerosmith arson here
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May 10, 2018 12:01 AM
May 10 - 2004: Provincetown defies Mitt Romney on same-sex marriage
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2012: President Barack Obama says he supports same-sex marriage
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May 9, 2018 02:00 AM
May 9 - 2007: Stories of lost Cape Cod bodies begin to emerge
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1957: Huge fire threatens Cape Cod homes
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May 8, 2018 01:16 AM
May 8 - 1911: Cape fire burns over two square miles of forest and farms
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Militia called out to fight forest fires around Chatham
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May 7, 2018 12:01 AM
May 7 - 1921: Current testing bottles reach Cape
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Land here 2 years, and 300 miles after they were set adrift ~ A few also ended up in the Azores 2,000 miles away in half that time
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May 6, 2018 12:01 AM
May 6 - 1862: The day Henry David Thoreau died
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The author of "Cape Cod" wrote some snappy things about us
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May 5, 2018 12:01 AM
May 5 - 1933: Harwich's Buck brothers caught in Cape Cod kidnapping
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All of $60,000 ransom Found in Kenneth Buck's Home
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May 4, 2018 12:01 AM
May 4 - 1965: Machine guns start fires, threaten two Cape towns
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2007: Hospitals won't release baby names to prevent baby-napping
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May 3, 2018 12:01 AM
May 3 - 1886: Steamer sinks schooner with 800 tons of coal off Cape Cod
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2007: Mashpee Tribe wants their land back
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May 2, 2018 12:01 AM
May 2 - 1933: Girl kidnapped in Harwichport
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1974: Oil company vessels start a seismic survey off the Cape
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May 1, 2018 12:01 AM
May 1 - 1955: Defense Department to build an "island" off Cape
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2007: Thieves steal bronze 9-11 Memorial. Buoys deployed to protect whales in Cape Cod Bay
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April 30, 2018 12:01 AM
April 30 -1966: Shrivers buy a Hyannisport home for $250,000
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1980: Cape Cod got its first "city-style" bus service - The fare was 50 cents (25 cents for those 60 and over)
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April 29, 2018 12:01 AM
April 29 - 1999: Rare right whale dies after collision on Bay
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2003: Bouchard dumps 98,000 gallons of oil in Buzzards Bay
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April 28, 2018 12:01 AM
April 28 - 2006: Cape's gay candidate Aaron Maloy steals the show
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1982: A Cape Codder at the Hinckley trial
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