Maui Be Happy
December 9, 2007 9:08 am > MAUI TODAY |
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National Baking Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Hau‘oli: Happy, happiness HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —“Tiny is the flower, yet it scents the grasses around it.”
Today: New Moon 7:41am - Devastating kona storm ends
December 9th, 1896: What a difference 111 years make! The Mauna Loa arrives in Honolulu Harbor after an eight-day voyage from San Francisco. The Mauna Loa is a steamer, the first of its kind that will become the inter-island ferry for Hawaii. Its first route is Honolulu to Kahului, which it begins in less than a week.
Upon its evening arrival, the Mauna Loa turns on its electric searchlights. This attracts and startles the fish in the harbor and the huge crowd, which has formed at the wharf to greet the ferry, delights and applauds the jumping fish and arriving ferry.
Today, no one on Maui is applauding the Superferry Alakai, nor the clueless Governor Linda Lingle, nor the hapless Coast Guard which has been ordered to prevent locals from using their harbor, nor the … well, is ANYONE happy?
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY – December 9th
1793: Noah Webster founds and first publishes New York City’s first daily newspaper, “American Minerva”
1851: The first YMCA is established in North America
1854: Lord Tennyson’s poem, “Charge of the Light Brigade,” is first published
1869: The Noble Order of Knights of Labor is founded (Philadelphia)
1884: Levant Richardson of Chicago is granted a patent for the ball-bearing roller skate
1909: The first U.S. monoplane is flown (bu Henry W Walden from Long Island, NY)
1941: China joins the WW II Allies by declaring war on Japan, Germany and Italy
1941: The Citizen Register wrongly reports that “Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester”
1953: General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
1958: Robert H.W. Welch Jr, and eleven other men, meet in Indianapolis to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society
1961: Nazi SS Colonel Adolf Eichman is found guilty of war crimes in his trial in Israel
1967: Jim Morrison is arrested on stage in New Haven Connecticut, for disturbing the peace and resisting arrest
1968: Silicon Valley engineer Doug Englebart first demonstrates a computer pointing device, which he calls a “mouse”
1971: Lewis F Powell Jr is appointed to the Supreme Court
1987: The Palestine uprising begins in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
1990: Solidarity founder Lech Walesa wins Poland’s presidential runoff by a landslide
1994: President Clinton fires Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders
2000: The U.S. Supreme Court orders a temporary halt in the Florida presidential vote
BORN ON THIS DAY – December 9th
1561: Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony
1608: John Milton, London, poet
1848: Joel Chandler Harris, journalist (created Uncle Remus stories)
1886: Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegetable tycoon
1897: Hermione Gingold, actress
1905: Dalton Trumbo, writer/film director
1909: Douglas Fairbanks Jr, actor
1911: Broderick Crawford, actor
1912: Thomas P “Tip” O’Neill, (Rep-D-Mass)/Speaker of the House
1918: Kirk Douglas, actor
1922: Redd Foxx, comedian
1928: Dick Van Patten, actor
1929: John Cassavetes, actor
1934: Dame Judi Dench, actress
1934: Junior Wells, blues singer
1941: Beau Bridges, actor
1943: Rick Danko, rock musician
1947: Tom Daschle, (Sen-D-South Dakota)/Senate Majority Leader
1950: Joan Armatrading, singer
1953: John Malkovich, Christopher actor/director
1957: Donny Osmond, singer
1961: Joe Lando, actor
1962: Felicity Huffman, actress
1968: Brian Bell, rock musician
1968: Michael Foster, drummer
1969: Allison Smith, actress
