GC76JR7 BWTG - June 2017 (Event Cache) in Michigan, United States created by Moldslug

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Hidden : Thursday, June 15, 2017

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BWTG - June 2017

Thursday, June 15, 2017 from 6:30am - 7:30am.

What's Special on today?

Events

763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.
1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
1776 – Delaware Separation Day: Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
1804 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
1846 – The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. 13 years later the Pig War would break out over ambiguity in the treaty which would lead to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between United States and British/Canadian settlers.
1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km2) around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
1916 – United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
1921 – Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
1934 – The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
1940 – World War II: Operation Ariel begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1970 – Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.

Birthdays

1479 – Lisa del Giocondo, Italian model, subject of the Mona Lisa (d. 1542)
1805 – William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago & as the 1st President of the Union Pacific Railroad, oversaw the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. (d. 1877) Trains are Cool.
1878 – Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer (d. 1955) She was the first American woman to win an Olympic event. She won the women's golf tournament, consisting of nine holes, with a score of 47, at the 1900 Paris Games.
1937 – Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
1938 – Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach for the Chicago Cubs
1954 – Jim Belushi, American actor
1956 – Lance Parrish, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1963 – Helen Hunt, American actress, director, and producer
1964 – Courteney Cox, American actress and producer
1973 – Neil Patrick Harris, American actor and singer

Deaths

1849 – James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
1917 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and academic (b. 1867) He is best remembered as the person whose theories of atmospheric electric currents elucidated the nature of the aurora borealis. In order to fund his research on the aurorae, he invented the electromagnetic cannon and the Birkeland-Eyde process of fixing nitrogen from the air. Birkeland was nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times.
1984 – Meredith Willson, American playwright, composer, and conductor (b. 1902) His best known work may be the musical ‘The Music Man’.
1996 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
2014 – Casey Kasem, American radio host, producer, and actor, co-created ‘American Top 40’ (b. 1932)

Today is ” Global Wind Day ”!

Global Wind Day originated in 2007, as "Wind Day". Spreading the word about the importance of clean wind energy quickly grew, and the popularity of this day spread around the world. It did not take long to become Global Wind Day. Wind power is beginning to reshape the energy scene. It is a clean, renewable, carbonless energy source. Hardly the source of a watt of energy a few decades ago, new windmills are going up every day in some part of the world. Over $100 Billion was invested in wind energy in 2014 alone. Onshore wind is now the cheapest form of new power generation on average, and offshore wind costs have fallen spectacularly in the last year.
Global Wind Day is intended to help us discover wind and its' power. Organizers hold open houses at wind farms, sponsor events and educational programs, to help us to better understand the value of wind energy.
So in case anyone was wondering, participating in Global Wind Day should be a breeze!

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, June 15, 2017 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!