GC7YJ1D BWTG - October 2018 (Event Cache) in Michigan, United States created by Moldslug

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Hidden : Thursday, October 18, 2018

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BWTG - March 2018

Thursday, October 18, 2018 from 6:30am - 7:30am.

What's Special on today?

Events

1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine). The attack was the only major event in what was supposed to be a campaign of retaliation against ports that supported Patriot activities in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. Among the colonies, news of the attack led to rejection of British authority and the establishment of independent governments. It also led the Second Continental Congress to contest British Naval dominance by forming a Continental Navy.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted. More than 500 recruits from Saint-Domingue (the French colony which later became Haiti), under the overall command of French nobleman Charles Hector, Comte d'Estaing, fought alongside American colonial troops against the British Army during the siege of Savannah. This was one of the most significant, foreign contributions to the American Revolutionary War. This French-colonial force had been established six months earlier and included hundreds of soldiers of color in addition to white soldiers and a couple black slaves. With the failure of the joint attack, the siege was abandoned, and the British remained in control of Savannah until July 1782, near the end of the war.
1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as 'The Whale' by Richard Bentley of London.
1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
1898 – The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain. Yes, Puerto Ricans are United States citizens.
1929 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1944 – World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
1945 – The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
1963 – Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat launched into space. The mission was a sub-orbital flight, and lasted 13 minutes, reaching a height of 157 kilometers, and included 5 minutes of weightlessness. Félicette was recovered safely after the capsule parachuted to Earth; she was euthanized three months later so that scientists could examine her brain. Ain't that a hero's welcome home.
1979 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license and the home satellite dish industry was born.

Birthdays

1596 – Edward Winslow, American Pilgrim leader (d. 1655) He was a Separatist who traveled on the Mayflower in 1620. He was one of several senior leaders on the ship and also later at Plymouth Colony. He also was the author of several important pamphlets, including ‘Good Newes from New England’ and co-wrote with William Bradford the historic ‘Mourt's Relation’, which ends with an account of the First Thanksgiving and the abundance of the New World
1804 – Mongkut, Thai king (d. 1868) Outside Thailand, he is best known as the king in the 1951 musical and 1956 film The King and I, based on the 1946 film Anna and the King of Siam – in turn based on a 1944 novel by an American missionary about Anna Leonowens' years at his court, from 1862 to 1867. He did not look like Yul Brenner though.
1836 – Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (d. 1911)
1878 – James Truslow Adams, American historian and author (d. 1949) He coined the term "American Dream" in his 1931 book ‘The Epic of America’.His American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."
1915 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980) Although he was an American character actor born in San Francisco, he best known for playing Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan films and Hop Sing in the western series Bonanza.
1926 – Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017) Yep, Johnny Be Good!
1927 – George C. Scott, American actor and director (d. 1999)
1935 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
1938 – Dawn Wells, American model and actress, Miss Nevada 1959 and best known as the castaway Mary Ann.
1939 – Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and sportscaster. Da Coach!
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
1951 – Pam Dawber, American actress and producer, and advocate for illegal aliens from Ork.
1984 – Lindsey Vonn, American skier

Deaths

1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791) His design for a ‘Difference Engine’ in 1819 was so advanced that it was until the 19th century when the tolerances necessary for construction were achievable in manufacturing. He updated the design in the late 1840s. During the 1980s, Allan G. Bromley, an associate professor at the University of Sydney, Australia, studied Babbage's original drawings for the Difference and Analytical Engines at the Science Museum library in London and conversion of the original design drawings into drawings suitable for engineering manufacturers' use and they constructed the machine which worked flawlessly and still does. He is considered by some to be a "father of the computer".
1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808) He is best known for developing the first telephone. He applied for his patent in 1871, 5 years before Alexander Graham Bell.
1931 – Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb, the motion picture camera and phonograph (b. 1847) He holds 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as patents in other countries.
1966 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (b. 1878)
1966 – S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (b. 1867) I’m sure we will be reporting the death of Kmart soon too.

Today is ” Chocolate Cupcake Day ”!

You know what’s better than a cake? Chocolate cake. You know what’s better than chocolate cake? A chocolate cupcake. That’s right, while we absolutely adore our cake, there’s a certain tug of delightful selfishness in a cake you can consume all to yourself, letting you revel in a little piece of gluttony. Chocolate Cupcake Day reminds us that sometimes it is more than acceptable to have a piece of confectionary delight that we simply don’t share with another, so find yourself a cupcake and make it disappear, just be sure it’s chocolate!

Chocolate Cupcake Day was established to celebrate that most perfect form of the Cupcake, the Chocolate Cupcake. Cupcakes are called by many names throughout the world, our personal favorite would have to be the term “Fairy Cake” from the British. The origin of the cupcake seems to go back as far as 1796, where cakes cooked in small cups were first mentioned, and the actual term cupcake was first seen in Eliza Leslie’s cookbook.

So how to celebrate Chocolate Cupcake Day? Well duh! Indulge yourself in the most delicious of cupcakes, the chocolate cupcake! It should hardly require any encouragement to have you scarfing up all the delicious chocolate cupcakes you can find, and on Chocolate Cupcake Day, there is certainly nothing wrong with indulging in chocolate cupcakes at every meal!

The event??
Breakfast With The Gang. Breakfast With The Geocachers. Bulging Waistlines Totally Grew. Breakfast With The Goofballs. Beware When Travis Geocaches. Breakfast With Team Geochef. Best Way To Geocache. Breakfast While Talking Geocaching. BWTG="Brian-Wussy; Travis-Greatest".

Call it what you want, but whatever you call it, it IS good food and great company. So let's get together, talk caching, and eat!

When?
Thursday, October 18, 2018 from 6:30am - 7:30am. (Oh yes, AM, in the morning, bright and early, rise and shine sleepy head). You may stay longer if you'd like, that depends on what time you have to show up for work or be somewhere else.

Where?
We will be meeting for a good, hearty breakfast at LaRue’s Family Resturant, with easy access from US-131 and I-94.

Who?
Everyone is welcome at the event!

What Do I Bring?
Bring a good, hearty appetite and be ready to share some of the best memories you have of geocaching; including, but not limited to, best caches, best events, best hospital story, best encounter with local law enforcement authorities, etc.

Celebrating a Milestone?
We want to know! Post it on the event page and you'll be acknowledged here as an official part of this event's history!

What do I do AFTER the event?
If you don't have to go to work or be somewhere else, we suggest you get out and cache!!! Either alone or with one of the groups that will, undoubtedly, be formed before, during or after the event. A great geocaching day can start here!