GC6YJ4J BWTG - January 2017 (Event Cache) in Michigan, United States created by Moldslug

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Hidden : Thursday, January 19, 2017

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BWTG - January 2017

Thursday, January 19, 2017 from 6:30am - 7:30am.

What's Special on today?

Events

1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden. The company received a Royal Charter from Queen Elizabeth I on 31 December 1600, and the company eventually came to rule large areas of India with its own private armies, exercising military power and assuming administrative and governmental functions that included policing and justice. As a private company with monopolies they operated with impunity and even performed executions until the 1800’s when India finally rebelled and gained independence.
1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States. Another typical war where it is common for rich land (and in this case slave owners) to convince the poor to go off and fight to maintain their lifestyle (and profits).
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict. The critical border state of Kentucky had declared neutrality in the fight to maintain the Union. This neutrality was first violated on September 3, when Confederate Brig. Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, acting on orders from Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, occupied Columbus, and two days later, Union Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah. Henceforth, neither adversary respected the proclaimed neutrality of the state and the Confederate advantage was lost; the buffer zone that Kentucky provided was no longer available to assist in the defense of Tennessee.
1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations, returning to its policy of isolationism.
1940 – You Nazty Spy!, the very first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres, starring The Three Stooges, with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
1953 – Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003. The need for this kind of car, and its functional objectives, was formulated by the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, who wanted a cheap, simple car to be mass-produced for his country's new Autobahn road network. Hitler contracted Ferdinand Porsche in 1934 to design and build it. Porsche and his team took until 1938 to finalize the design at which point it was put into production.
1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.

Birthdays

1736 – James Watt, Scottish-English chemist and engineer (d. 1819) While working as an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow, Watt became interested in the technology of steam engines. And he improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781. Eventually he adapted his engine to produce rotary motion, greatly broadening its use beyond pumping water. which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution and the creation of trains. He developed the concept of horsepower, and the SI unit of power, the watt, was named after him. Trains are cool.
1807 – Robert E. Lee, American general and academic (d. 1870)
1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American author, poet, and critic (d. 1849)
1813 – Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (d. 1898) He was an English inventor, whose steelmaking process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century. Check out America's First
1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress and singer (d. 2013) “Edith, yous is a dingbat”.
1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (d. 1970)
1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and author
1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor and singer. His mother was simply known as Lucy.
1962 – Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach. His older brother is Stan Van Gundy is currently the head coach and president of basketball operations for the Detroit Pistons.
1974 – Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast

Deaths

1755 – Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1683). He is best known for his proposal to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale to place freezing at zero. It was widely accepted and is still in use today. Now his 15 minutes of fame…
1869 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788). Although he had many contributions in the fields of chemistry, it was his late in life pursuit of the unproved field of energy combining electricity, magnetism and heat, emanating from all living things, which he called the ‘Odic force’. Robert Todd Carroll in the The Skeptic's Dictionary has written “Reichenbach's pursuit of the odic force is a classic example of pathological science.” (or pseudoscience). But even today we still say “May the Force be with you!” Yoda knows.
1998 – Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932). The influential rockabilly singer/songwriter is best known for his #1 hit ‘Blue Suede Shoes’.
2000 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress, singer, and mathematician (b. 1913). Not only was she a well known film star in the ‘40s & ‘50s, but At the beginning of World War II, Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA, and Bluetooth technology, and this work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
2013 – Stan Musial, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
2013 – Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (b. 1930)

Today is ” Tin Can Day ”!

The tin canning process was allegedly invented in the early 1800’s by Frenchman Philippe de Girard and the idea passed to British merchant Peter Durand who was used as an agent to patent Girard's idea in 1810. The canning concept was based on experimental food preservation work in glass containers the year before by the French inventor Nicholas Appert. Durand did not pursue food canning, but, in 1812, sold his patent to two Englishmen, Bryan Donkin and John Hall, who refined the process and product, and set up the world's first commercial canning factory on Southwark Park Road, London. By 1813 they were producing their first tin canned goods for the Royal Navy.
The tin can revolutionized the military and the world of exploration – soldiers and explorers could now travel long distances without worrying about food supplies or the shelf life of their food.
Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett received the US patent on January 19, 1825. The first practical can opener wouldn't be invented until 50 years after the first tin can was invented.
Early tin cans were sealed by soldering with a tin-lead alloy, which could lead to lead poisoning. No cans currently in wide use are composed primarily or wholly of tin, that term rather reflects the nearly exclusive use in cans, until the second half of the 20th century, of tinplate steel which combined the physical strength and relatively low price of steel with the corrosion resistance of tin. Depending on the contents and available coatings, tin-free steel is also used. In some locations any metal can, even aluminium, might be called a "tin can".
Steel from cans and other sources is the most recycled packaging material. Around 65% of steel cans are recycled. In the United States, 63% of steel cans are recycled, compared to 52% of aluminium cans

So if you ever gave thought to the ubiquitous ‘tin can’ and it’s simple design, today is the day to celebrate!

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, January 19, 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!