GC8GNCX BWTG - December 2019 (Event Cache) in Michigan, United States created by Moldslug

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Moldslug: Good bye December.
Good bye 2019.
Good bye decade.

GC8GNCX ▼

A cache by Moldslug Message this owner

Hidden : Thursday, December 19, 2019

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Size: Size: other (other)

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19 December 2019, 06:30 - 07:30

BWTG - December 2019

Thursday, December 19, 2019 from 6:30am - 7:30am.

What's Special on today?

Events

1606 – The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
1777 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1828 – Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
1907 – Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
1912 – William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1932 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
1972 – Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1995 – The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.
1998 – President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.

Birthdays

1714 – John Winthrop, American astronomer and educator (d. 1779) He graduated in 1732 from Harvard, where, from 1738 until his death, he served as professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. He was one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century, and his impact on its early advance in New England was particularly significant influencing many early Americans such as Benjamin Franklin & John Adams.
1849 – Henry Clay Frick, American businessman and financier (d. 1919) He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel manufacturing concern. He also financed the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company (Railroad).
1852 – Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-American physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931) He was an American physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science. He was the founder and the first head of the physics department of the University of Chicago.
1875 – Carter G. Woodson, American historian and author, founded Black History Month (d. 1950)
1899 – Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (d. 1984) His son became a bit more famous though.
1920 – Little Jimmy Dickens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
1926 – Bobby Layne, American football player and coach (d. 1986) Wearing #22 for the Detroit Lions, Layne won three NFL Championships (pre Super Bowl era) in 1952, 1953, and lastly in 1957. Which incidentally was the last time the team has been to a championship game.
1934 – Al Kaline, American baseball player and sportscaster
1961 – Reggie White, American football player and wrestler (d. 2004)
1972 – Alyssa Milano, American actress and television personality
1980 – Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor and producer

Deaths

1848 – Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1818)
1915 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (b. 1864) He is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which would later identify as Alzheimer's disease.
1933 – George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857) He was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR) in the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1922. Trains are cool.
2012 – Robert Bork, American lawyer, judge, and scholar, United States Attorney General (b. 1927) I guess life finally borked him.

Today is ” Look for an Evergreen Day ”! <<br />

According to the website Holidayinsights.com, today is “Look for an Evergreen Day”. Although the site says this has been around for many years, they offer no reason for the creation or where they got the day from. They indicate it’s probably due to the Christmas season. Well I can only assume that they might not be geocachers because for us, everyday is look for an evergreen day! Well, at least if there’s a cache there.
So what better way to celebrate this unique holiday then to go out and find a cache - in an evergreen of course!

Quote of the day – “ Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. “ - John Muir

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, December 19, 2019 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!