BWTG - December 2016 Event Cache
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BWTG - December 2016
Thursday, December 15, 2016 from 6:30am - 7:30am.
What's Special on today?
Events
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
1791 – The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: Union forces under George Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John Hood.
1890 – Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre. On the morning of December 29, the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota. One version of events claims that during the process of disarming the Lakota, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it.A scuffle over the rifle ensued and by the time it was over, more than 150 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 were wounded (4 men and 47 women and children, some of whom died later); some estimates placed the number of dead at 300.
1906 – The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens. Trains are cool.
1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. Cheers!
1939 – Gone with the Wind (highest inflation adjusted grossing film) receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
1941 – The Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union.
1945 – Occupation of Japan/Shinto Directive: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
1960 – Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.
1965 – Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
1970 – Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
1973 – The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.
1981 – A suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing.
2000 – The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
2009 – Boeing's 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
2010 – A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people. I guess their Christmas celebration ran aground. Merry Christmas anyways…
Birthdays
37 – Nero, Roman emperor. (d. 68)
1832 – Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (d. 1923)
1852 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908) He was the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity. For work in this field he, along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after him.
1861 – Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (d. 1938) He and his brothers one-cylinder "Ladies Phaeton” in 1893 is considered the first successful gas-engine vehicle built in the U.S.
1892 – J. Paul Getty, American-English businessman and art collector, founded Getty Oil (d. 1976)
1933 – Tim Conway, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Jim Leyland, American baseball player and manager
1949 – Don Johnson, American actor
Deaths
1675 – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1632)
1878 – Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
1890 – Sitting Bull, American tribal chief (b. 1831)
1944 – Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
1966 – Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1901)
2010 – Bob Feller, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918)
Today is ” Bill of Rights Day ”!
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared December 15 to be ‘Bill of Rights Day’ to commemorating the 150th anniversary of its ratification.
On March 4, 1789, the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified by the (former) 13 colonies, and went into effect. States and individuals were concerned that the Constitution did not properly cover and protect a number of rights of individuals. The Constitution was signed by the original 13 states with the requirement, or understanding, that a Bill of Rights would be created, amending the new U.S. Constitution. So on September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution. On December 15, 1791, 10 of those amendments were added.
For a fun refresher here they are:
Amendment 1- Freedom of speech, press and religion.
Amendment 2 - The right to bear arms.
Amendment 3- Protection of homeowners from quartering troops, except during war.
Amendment 4 - Rights and protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
Amendment 5 - Rights of due process of law, protection against double jeopardy, self incrimination.
Amendment 6 - Rights of a speedy trial by jury of peers and rights of accused.
Amendment 7 - Rights to trial by jury in civil cases.
Amendment 8 - Protection from cruel and unusual punishment, excessive bail.
Amendment 9 - Protection of rights not specified in the Bill of Rights.
Amendment 10 - States rights, power of the states.
Of the 12 original amendments, which ones were not approved? The original Amendments #1 and #2 did not pass. #1 dealt with the number of representative to congress, and had it passed, there would be over 6,000 congressman today!!! #2 was finally ratified in 1992 as Amendment #27 stating Congress couldn’t get a pay raise until after an election. With re-election rates over 90%, most are guaranteed to get the raises they voted for. Wish I could give myself a raise…
So on “Bill of Rights Day”, I hope you celebrate your American Citizenship, and spend a few minutes reflecting upon the freedoms that we enjoy. These freedoms do not exist in many countries of the world.
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, December 15, 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!
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