BWTG - August 2015 Event Cache
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BWTG - August 2015
Thursday, August 27, 2015 from 6:30am - 7:30am.
What's Special on today?
Events
410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
1776 – Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2011 – Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.
Birthdays
1407 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician, 2nd Proprietor of Maryland (d. 1715)
1809 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (d. 1891)
1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
1877 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1910)
1896 – Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin, one of the weirdest musical instruments ever created! It is played on the Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” and recently performed by Dr. Sheldon Cooper. (d. 1993)
1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
1916 – Martha Raye, American actress and singer. Her nickname was “The Big Mouth” (d. 1994)
1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboard player and songwriter (Captain & Tennille)
1952 – Paul Reubens, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman.
1953 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer of the band ‘Rush’.
1957 – Bernhard Langer, German golfer
1959 – Downtown Julie Brown, English television host and actress and MTV video DJ.
1969 – Cesar Millan, Mexican-American dog trainer
Deaths
1828 – Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer, built the Eisinga Planetarium (b. 1744)
1958 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, was a pioneering American nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron, a type of particle accelerator. (b. 1901)
1964 – Gracie Allen, American comedienne, actress and singer, and wife of George Burns forming half of one the greatest comedy teams of all time, ‘Burns & Allen’.
1990 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Double Trouble) (b. 1954)
Today is ” Just Because Day ”!
According to the website HolidayInsights.com, today is a day you have a chance to do something without a rhyme or reason. Most often in life, we do things because we have to, or we want to, or it's expected of us. None of those reasons apply today. It’s like driving exactly one hundred miles in any direction and then setting your GPS to next closest cache, you have no idea what the next cache will be! Why did you pick that cache, ‘Just Because…’
If you want to drive somewhere and celebrate something official, today is also ‘Lyndon Baines Johnson Day’ but it’s in Texas only. After the 36th president of the United States died in 1973, the Texas State Legislature created a legal state holiday to be observed every year on August 27 to honor one of their state's native sons.
The holiday is optional for state employees and state offices do not close. I guess he was only partly honored.
And one last celebration, it’s Independence Day in Moldova. The former satellite country broke free from the USSR in 1991. So avoid going there today to cache.
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 27, 2015 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 100 miles in any direction and start caching. Why? Just Because!
Additional Hints
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