Everybody has a different way of waking up in the morning. Here's a way to start out your morning, by gathering with a like minded bunch of people to swap stories about geocaching over a cup of Joe.

It's the month of the year when we see lots of palindromes, dates read forward and backwards. 4/2/24 was the first palindrome of the month and today starts a 10 day run of palindromic dates. You might even call this Palindrome Week.  However, today's date is extra special since we can also add the first two numbers of the year into the date and it's still a palindrome, 4/20/2024. This means it's time to celebrate this extra special palindromic date with an event. Let's all meet and enjoy a fresh brew of your favorite beverage while sharing stories with other geocachers doing the same thing.

Come on down and grab a cup of coffee and spend some time shooting the breeze with other local geocachers. You'll be able to trade travel bugs and just hang out for awhile while you recharge your batteries with your favorite type of morning beverage.

This event will be held at the Starbucks in La Verne at 1181 Foothill Blvd. The event will start at 8:00 AM and end somewhere around 9:30 in the morning. That way, you'll still have plenty of time to do whatever you wanted to do for the rest of the day. There should be plenty of parking for this event and there's a nice outdoor patio if you want to bring your pooches to the event. 

On this date in history:

April 20, 1775 : The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
April 20, 1898 : U.S. President William McKinley signs a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
April 20, 1918 : Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
April 20, 1961 : Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
April 20, 1972 : Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon.
April 20, 2008 : Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.

Notable birthdays on this date in history:

April 20, 1850: Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln statue (d. 1931)
April 20, 1893: Harold Lloyd, American actor, comedian, and producer (d. 1971)
April 20, 1920: John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2019)
April 20, 1929: Harry Agganis, American baseball and football player (d. 1955)
April 20, 1945: Mike, American Wyandotte chicken, lived 18 months following decapitation (d. 1947)
April 20, 1961: Don Mattingly, American baseball player, coach, and manager

Notable deaths on this date in history:

April 20, 1769: Chief Pontiac, American tribal leader (b. 1720)
April 20, 1912: Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (b. 1847)
April 20, 1929: Prince Henry of Prussia (b. 1862)
April 20, 1982: Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (b. 1892)
April 20, 1993: Cantinflas, Mexican actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
April 20, 2003: Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)