GC7EBFX BWTG - November 2017 (Event Cache) in Michigan, United States created by Moldslug

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Hidden : Thursday, November 16, 2017

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BWTG - November 2017

Thursday, November 16, 2017 from 6:30am - 7:30am.

What's Special on today?

Events

1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
1776 – American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries (or Dutch) recognize the independence of the United States.
1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail. You can follow the route today by downloading a passport and enjoying the Santa Fe National Historic Trail GeoTour
1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee: Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason. In the US he would of got a statue…
1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1940 – Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
1943 – World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
1965 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

Birthdays

42 BC – Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37Ad)
1717 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1793) While he made great strides in mathematics and physics, d'Alembert is also famously known for incorrectly arguing that the probability of a coin landing heads increased for every time that it came up tails. In gambling, the strategy of decreasing one's bet the more one wins and increasing one's bet the more one loses is therefore called the D'Alembert system, a type of martingale.
1753 – James McHenry, Irish-American surgeon and politician (d. 1816) He was a signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland and the namesake of Fort McHenry. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland, and the third United States Secretary of War (1796–1800), under the first and second presidents, George Washington (administration: 1789–1797) and John Adams (administration: 1797–1801).
1873 – W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1958)
1907 – Burgess Meredith, American actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1958 – Marg Helgenberger, American actress
1964 – Dwight Gooden, American baseball player
1977 – Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress and singer

Deaths

1806 – Moses Cleaveland, American general, lawyer, and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754)
1950 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
1960 – Clark Gable, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
1961 – Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician, 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1882) GCE84E ‘Sammie ‘
2006 – Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)

Today is ” Great American Smokeout ”!

There are absolutely no uses or any other redeeming value to cigarettes or any positive uses for them. Cigarettes are the only product ever that if used as intended, will make you sick and can kill you. Name another. Yep, it’s true.
That’s why back in 1977 The American Cancer Society created this day and it’s held the 3rd Thursday of November every year.
About 36.5 million Americans still smoke cigarettes, and tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the world. While cigarette smoking rates have dropped (from 42% in 1965 to 15.1% in 2015), cigar, pipe, and hookah – other dangerous and addictive ways to smoke tobacco – are very much on the rise. Smoking kills people – there’s no “safe” way to smoke tobacco.
Quitting smoking has immediate and long-term benefits at any age. Quitting is hard, but you can increase your chances of success with help. Getting help through counseling or medications can double or triple the chances of quitting successfully.

So if you’re a smoker, today should be a push in the right direction. Seek out help which is available in many forms. Your life depends upon it! And remember, never quit quitting!

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, November 16, 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!