Cape Cod History

Cape Cod History
October 30, 2018 12:01 AM
October 30 - 1985: Whydah wreck found off Wellfleet
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1961: New breed of senior citizens who stay year-round
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October 29, 2018 12:01 AM
October 29 - 1911: Hyannis folk hang accused murderer in effigy
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1997: Indian advocate John Peters dies at 67
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October 28, 2018 12:01 AM
October 28 - 1983: Can Old Cape Cod still be saved?
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1993: Report explains U.S. Navy submarine Thresher sinking off Cape Cod
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October 27, 2018 12:01 AM
October 27 - 1660: Cape Cod's first whaler was persecuted "for his evil ways"
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Whaling made Provincetown the richest town per capita in Massachusetts
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October 26, 2018 12:01 AM
October 26 - 1919: Mass. Senator Ed Brooke is born
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1981: Two great Cape Cod nature books published
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October 25, 2018 12:01 AM
October 25 - 1908: Cape author Joe Lincoln starts to make us famous
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"Down East, Cape Cod Way" where folks still say "I swan"
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October 24, 2018 12:01 AM
October 24 - 1944: The day it was reported the first Kennedy brother died
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1976: The sinking of the Patricia Marie with seven men lost
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October 23, 2018 12:01 AM
October 23 - 1819: First missionaries leave for Hawaii never to return
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1988: Cape Cod growing 9 times faster than the rest of the state, debates rules to stop growth
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October 22, 2018 12:01 AM
October 22 - 1948: Cape Cod's gay whale returns
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The world is amused by tales about Willie the Whale which had been frolicking about Provincetown Harbor
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October 21, 2018 12:01 AM
October 21 - 1958: Betty Freidan warns about Climate Change long before Al Gore
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The tide also rises ~ Turnpike happens; Connecticut Turnpike's completion will speed travel to Cape
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October 20, 2018 12:01 AM
October 20 - 1908: Experiment flooded cranberry bogs and other unusual events
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Queer things caught in our fishing weirs ~ Highland Cliffs are moving west 18 inches each year ~ One Cape town without a railroad ~ More
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October 19, 2018 12:01 AM
October 19 - 1958: Provincetown's world famous art collection which wasn't
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Chrysler Museum ridiculed in The New Yorker Talk of the Town
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October 18, 2018 12:01 AM
October 18 - 1985: Billboards, asphalt, help Cape tourism
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1987: Volunteers mobilizing to save stranded whales
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October 17, 2018 12:01 AM
October 17 - 1978: Mashpee Wampanoags sue for recognition
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They lost their case after a 40-day trial
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October 16, 2018 12:01 AM
October 16 - 1987: Sixty pilot whales stranded
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2002: Edward Gorey House opens
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October 15, 2018 12:01 AM
October 15 - 2003: Woman's body found off Monomoy
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1988: Chappaquiddick re-examined
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October 14, 2018 12:01 AM
October 14 - 2003: Cranberries help pols win elections
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Had actor Gary Coleman hired those Cranberry PR folks, he'd been elected governor of California instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger
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October 13, 2018 12:01 AM
October 13 - Boston almost repeats baseball history
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Red Sox vs Rays and the long line at Fenway
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October 12, 2018 12:01 AM
October 12 - 1988: Cape Cod calls for building halt
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Polls show residents overwhelmingly in favor of the moratorium
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October 11, 2018 12:01 AM
October 11 -1804: The day a "snow hurricane" hit
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Strange Snow Hurricane wipes out crops, livestock, ships at anchor
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October 10, 2018 12:01 AM
October 10 - 1982: How Route I-25 got the "Ingersoll Bulge"
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Cape Cod farmer wins a twenty-five year battle for her road
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October 9, 2018 12:01 AM
October 9, 1991: Stranded whales freed in Truro
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1991: Stranded whales freed in Truro
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October 8, 2018 12:01 AM
October 8 - 1984: Ninety-four whales die after beaching in Eastham
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2004: Marathon champion John Kelley dies at 97
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October 7, 2018 12:01 AM
October 7 - 1808: The Chatham Light is lit
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"Mooncussers" helped turn on Chatham Light nine years after the Cape's first lighthouse at North Truro
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October 6, 2018 12:01 AM
October 6 - 1996: Delahunt's long reign begins with a question mark
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Cape Cod and South Shore's "hanging chads"
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