GC6APTM BWTG - February 2016 (Event Cache) in Michigan, United States created by Moldslug

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Hidden : Thursday, February 18, 2016

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BWTG - February 2016

Thursday, February 18, 2016 from 6:30am - 7:30am.

What's Special on today?

Events

1766 – A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
1791 – Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March 1791, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1865 – American Civil War: Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
1885 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
1911 – The first official flight with air mail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
1943 – The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement who were a non-violent, intellectual resistance group consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor. The six most recognized members of the German resistance group were arrested by the Gestapo, tried for treason and beheaded. Today, the members of the White Rose are honoured in Germany amongst its greatest heroes, since they opposed the Third Reich in the face of almost certain death.
1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots (nuclear detonations) in the Teapot series.
1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
2001 – Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.

Birthdays

1677 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer and academic (d. 1756) and son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini for whom the Cassini spaceprobe, launched in 1997, was named after. It became the fourth probe to visit Saturn and the first to orbit the planet.
1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827)
1838 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916) In fluid dynamics, the Mach number (named after him) is a dimensionless quantity representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.
1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (d. 1933)
1858 – Wilhelm Schmidt, German engineer (d. 1924) and inventor who achieved the breakthrough in the development of superheated steam technology for steam engines. An important advance in making trains more cool.
1898 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (d. 1988)
1919 – Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
1925 – George Kennedy, American actor
1933 – Yoko Ono, Japanese-American singer-songwriter (Plastic Ono Band) and arguably the reason for the Beatles breaking up!
1947 – Dennis DeYoung, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Styx) and played Kalamazoo Ribfest in 2014.
1954 – John Travolta, American actor, singer, and producer
1957 – Vanna White, American actress and game show host
1964 – Matt Dillon, American actor and director
1968 – Molly Ringwald, American actress, singer, and dancer

Deaths

901 – Thābit ibn Qurra, Iraqi physician, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 826)
1294 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1215)
1546 – Martin Luther, German priest and theologian, leader of the Protestant Reformation (b. 1483)
1564 – Michelangelo, Italian sculptor and painter (b. 1475)
1851 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (b. 1804) He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
1902 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
1964 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)
1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1904) As the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, Oppenheimer is among those who are called the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
1981 – Jack Northrop, American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (b. 1895)
2001 – Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)

Today is ” National Drink Wine Day! ”

National Drink Wine Day is celebrated annually on February 18 across the United States.

People have been producing wine since at least 6000 B.C. There are dozens of ancient legends about humans who accidentally consumed fermented grapes and became intoxicated, which is probably how wine was first conceived. Eventually, people began experimenting with the fermentation process. The methods for making wine spread from the region of Mesopotamia to Egypt, Greece, Rome, France, Spain, and eventually the New World. Today, over 20 million acres of the earth’s surface are dedicated to growing grapes for wine.
Studies have shown that drinking a glass of wine a day improves heart health, reduces forgetfulness, boosts immunity, and increases bone density. To celebrate Drink Wine Day, check out a local winery, send your friends a virtual toast with a free eCard, or host an impromptu wine tasting! Cheers!

Oddly enough, today is also “National Battery Day”.
Batteries are in virtually every household item – remote controls, smoke alarms, phones, toys, and of course our all important GPS’s. Benjamin Franklin coined the term “battery” – but the version we know today was created by Allesandro Volta, an Italian physicist. Today commemorates his birth (see above), and marks the importance of the modern day battery.

So pull up a wine app on your smart phone and you’ll be celebrating both days at once!

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, February 18, 2016 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 Cracker Barrel, just South of 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 and then head north to Conman/Team Peterson’s potluck event in GR. A twofer with a lot o'fun inbetween!