Launchd isn't launching my app

I used Lingon to create this plist file, but launchd is never launching the application. The intent of the StartCalendarInterval specification is to have it run every hour, on the hour. Activity Monitor shows that launchd is active, and running as "root". My own user is the owner of the .app file (and every other .app file, for that matter).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>org.mark92630.myCalendarBackup</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/mark92630/Applications/CalendarBackup</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<false/>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>0</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
Thanks in advance for any ideas,
Mark

Every hour on the hour, I want the app to START, execute, and then STOP (go to end of task). I do not want it to be running (or idling) constantly in the background. Please tell me how making it a login item is going to accomplish that.
Think of Time Machine backups for something that works the same way that I want my app to. Time Machine is not a login item.
The way I did this years ago in Unix was to use the "cron" subsystem, but Apple documentation says that cron has been deprecated in favor of launchd.
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