GC5DEV6 BWTG - October 2014 (Event Cache) in Michigan, United States created by Moldslug

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Hidden : Thursday, October 16, 2014

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BWTG - October 2014

Thursday, October 16, 2014 from 6:30am - 7:30am.

What's Special on today?

Events

1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1814 – London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing eight.(Yes it really did happen!)
1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.Trains are cool.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1939 – World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1962 – The Cuban missile crisis between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union begins when US President John F. Kennedy is shown photographs of missile sites in Cuba.
1975 – Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox. Vaccinations worldwide have eliminated the disease leading the World Health Organization to declare it eradicated in 1979.
1978 – Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1991 – Luby's shooting: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
1996 – 84 people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.

Birthdays

1714 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795). He was a mining specialist who developed possibly the first classification of geological time.
1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer and author (d. 1843). His name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language. He is also considered one of the Founding Fathers of the nation.
1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1900)
1925 – Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer.
1941 – Tim McCarver, American baseball player, sportscaster, and singer.
1946 – Suzanne Somers, American actress.
1962 – Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor (Red Hot Chili Peppers).
1962 – Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player (d. 2010)
1975 – Kellie Martin, American actress.

Deaths

1333 – Antipope Nicholas V (b. 1260)
1591 – Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
1793 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France (b. 1755) was executed by guillotine, back when public beheadings were popular.
1946 – Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial in which 10 men were hanged for their crimes for Germany during WWII.
1959 – George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880) He is best remembered for the “Marshall Plan” which was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $17 billion (approximately $160 billion in 2014 dollars) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and make Europe prosperous again
1992 – Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (b. 1898).
2010 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress well known as the mother on “Leave it to Beaver” (b. 1915) One of my favorite TV lines of all time is still ”Ward, don’t you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night?”

Today is ” Boss's Day”!

Boss's Day is a secular holiday celebrated on October 16 in the United States, Canada and Lithuania (the big three). It has traditionally been a day for employees to thank their bosses for being kind and fair throughout the year. This day was created for the purpose of strengthening the bond between employer and employee. Although the holiday is still controversial, it has become increasingly popular since its creation.
So if nothing else, have a laugh with your boss by telling them this joke…

Sam walks into his boss’s office. “Sir, I’ll be straight with you, I know the economy isn’t great, but I have over three companies after me, and I would like to respectfully ask for a raise.” After a few minutes of haggling the boss finally agrees to a 5% raise, and Sam happily gets up to leave. ”By the way”, asks the boss as Sam is getting up, “which three companies are after you?” “The electric company, water company, and phone company”, Sam replied.

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 16, 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 head north to Team Peterson’s potluck event in GR, GC5D7HM. A twofer with a lot o'fun inbetween!