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#73 Wake Up and Smell the Coffee! Event Cache

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Hidden : Saturday, July 2, 2022
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02 July 2022, 08:00 - 09:30

Everybody has a different way of waking up in the morning. Here's a way to start out your morning, by gathering with a like minded bunch of people to swap stories about geocaching over a cup of Joe.

It's the first Saturday of the month, summer is in full swing and we're in the middle of a long holiday weekend, celebrating the birthday of the United States with lots of "safe and sane" fireworks.

Come on down and grab a cup of coffee and spend some time shooting the breeze with other local geocachers. You'll be able to trade travel bugs and just hang out for awhile while you recharge your batteries with your favorite type of morning beverage. 

This event will be held at the Starbucks in La Verne at 1181 Foothill Blvd. The event will start at 8:00 AM and officially end at 9:30 in the morning, but there may be some lingering on after that. Either way, you'll still have plenty of time to do whatever you wanted to do for the rest of the day. There should be plenty of parking for this event and there's a nice outdoor patio if you want to bring your pooches to the event. 

On this date in history:
 
  • July 2, 1776 : The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.
  • July 2, 1839 : Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 kidnapped Africans led by Joseph Cinqué mutiny and take over the slave ship Amistad.
  • July 2, 1881 : Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
  • July 2, 1937 : Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
  • July 2, 1964 : U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
  • July 2, 2002 : Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
Birthdays on this date in history:

  • July 2, 1862: William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
  • July 2, 1877: Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
  • July 2, 1904: René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt (d. 1996)
  • July 2, 1908: Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and civil rights activist, 32nd Solicitor General of the United States, and former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1993)
  • July 2, 1932: Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (d. 2002)
  • July 2, 1937: Richard Petty, American race car driver and sportscaster
Notable deaths on this date in history:

  • July 2, 1961: Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
  • July 2, 1997: James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
  • July 2, 1999: Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
  • July 2, 2007: Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano and television personality (b. 1929)
  • July 2, 2013: Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (b. 1925)
  • July 2, 2016: Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, activist, and author (b. 1928)

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