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20 February 2020, 06:30 - 07:30
BWTG - February 2020
Thursday, February 20, 2020 from 6:30am - 7:30am.
What's Special on today?
Events
1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
1872 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
1931 – The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
1933 – The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.
1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
1952 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
2003 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
2016 – Six people are killed and two injured by Uber driver Jason Brian Dalton in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo.
Birthdays
1848 – E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1909) He was an American railroad executive who worked his way to becoming the company president of both the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads. Trains are cool.
1902 – Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (d. 1984)
1920 – Karl Albrecht, German businessman, (d. 2014) He co-founded Aldi the discount grocery chain with his brother Theo. The German chain has over 10,000 stores in 20 countries.
1927 – Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat
1937 – Roger Penske, American race car driver and businessman
1946 – Sandy Duncan, American actress, singer, and dancer
1963 – Charles Barkley, American basketball player and sportscaster
1966 – Cindy Crawford, American model and businesswoman
1967 – Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1994)
1984 – Trevor Noah, South African comedian, actor, and television host
Deaths
1862 – William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850) He was twelve when two of President Lincolns boys became ill, believed to be Typhoid Fever. His brother Tad recovered but ‘Willie’ did not and died with his parents by his bedside. He is the only child to have died in the White House.
1895 – Frederick Douglass, American author and activist (b. 1818)
1920 – Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (b. 1856)
1972 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic (b. 1906) She worked on the Manhattan Project and developed a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells. She became the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics.
1992 – Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
1993 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian businessman, founded Lamborghini (b. 1916)
2005 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937) "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
Today is ” National Cherry Pie Day”!
Cherry pie is America's second most popular pie, behind only apple pie in popularity. However, in the month of February, it's Number 1.
As a young boy, future president George Washington made the Cherry tree popular, with his famous quote "I can not tell a lie, I chopped down the Cherry tree." We celebrate George Washington's Birthday and President's Day in February. Appropriately, its traditional to bake cherry pies in honor of the occasion.
Being the "hot pie" of the month, it is only fitting that Cherry Pie Day falls in February. On Cherry Pie Day, celebrate today with a piece of pie, a cherry pie. If you really want to enjoy this day to the fullest, bake a cherry pie from scratch. Or go out for breakfast with a bunch of crazy geocachers and order a piece. Yeah, pie.
And be sure to sing the ‘80s hair band group Warrants iconic song “Cherry Pie”...
She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water, such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good, make a grown man cry
Sweet cherry pie, oh yeah
Put a smile on your face, ten miles wide!
Quote of the day – “ If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. “ - Carl Sagan
The event??
Breakfast With The Geocachers. Breakfast With The Gang. Breakfast With The Goofballs. Best Way To Geocache. Breakfast While Talking Geocaching. Bulging Waistlines Totally Grew..
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, February 20, 2020 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!
Additional Hints
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