BWTG - August 2014
Thursday, August 21, 2014 from 6:30am - 7:30am.
What's Special on today?
WERE GONNA MISS YA TRAVIS!
Events
1680 – Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.
1863 – Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
1883 – An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1897 – Oldsmobile, a brand of American automobiles was founded. When it was phased out in 2004 after 107 years, Oldsmobile was the oldest surviving American automobile brand and one of the oldest in the world.
1942 – World War II: the Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
1945 – Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1957 – The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
1959 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day. (yes it really is a state and people born here can become president… ;)
1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
1991 – Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
Birthdays
1660 – Hubert Gautier, French engineer (d. 1737) In 1716, he wrote the first book on building bridges, Traité des ponts.
1665 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1729)
1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting (d. 1839)
1904 – Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Count Basie Orchestra) (d. 1984)
1909 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1992)
1924 – Jack Buck, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
1936 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (d. 1999)
1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (The New Christy Minstrels and The First Edition)
1954 – Archie Griffin, American football player and college football's only two-time Heisman Trophy winner.
1957 – Steve Smith, American drummer (Journey, Montrose, Steps Ahead, The RD Crusaders, and Vital Information)
1959 – Jim McMahon, American football player and 1985 Super Bowl winning quarterback for DA BEARS!
1967 – Serj Tankian, Lebanese-American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (System of a Down and Axis of Justice)
1980 – Paul Menard, American race car driver
1986 – Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
Deaths
1614 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (b. 1560). She has been labeled the most prolific female serial killer in history.
1796 – John McKinly, American physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware (b. 1721)
1940 – Leon Trotsky, Russian politician and theorist (b. 1879)
1960 – David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
1995 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910). He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for his mathematical theory of black holes, which was a key discovery that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars.
2005 – Robert Moog, American businessman, founded Moog Music (b. 1934). He was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
2013 – Sid Bernstein, American record producer (b. 1918). He was an American music producer and promoter. Bernstein changed the American music scene in the 1960s by bringing The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, The Moody Blues, and The Kinks to America.
Today is ” National Senior Citizens Day ”!
National Senior Citizens Day honors our elderly population. On this day, we are encouraged to recognize and show appreciation for the value and contribution of elderly people to home, family and society.
In his Presidential Proclamation (August 19, 1988), President Ronald Reagan said "For all they have achieved throughout life and for all they continue to accomplish, we owe older citizens our thanks and a heartfelt salute. We can best demonstrate our gratitude and esteem by making sure that our communities are good places in which to mature and grow older."
And what better way to celebrate then to sit around with a bunch of ‘old timers’ ordering an ‘Old Timers’ breakfast. It’s right there at the top of the menu…. LOL
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, August 21, 2014 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 look north as usually someone has an event in GR. A twofer with a lot o'fun inbetween!
