Life’s A Beach
December 10, 2007 6:37 am > MAUI TODAY |
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World Freedom Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kahakai: Beach HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —“The beach where the white fish are always around.”
December 10, 1973: The state supreme court of Hawaii rules that the state (and theoretically the citizens thereof) own all shores seaward of the vegetation line.This would be great news for all Maui residents, except of course, the rich are greedy and are never stopped by small matters of law.This ruling begins a mass planting of all sorts of vegetation at the mansion coastal homes.
The owners hope that over time the vegetation will grow, and consume much of the dunes and beach in front of their houses, and therefore prevent people from enjoying the shoreline, and making public shoreline private property, namely theirs.
Such activity can be seen today especially along the Makena coast.There are no less than three lawsuits currently making their way through Maui and Hawaiian courts which deal with this infraction.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY – December 10th
1520: German reformer Martin Luther publicly burns Pope Leo X’s edict, “Exsurge Domine”
1768: King George III founds the Royal Academy of Arts
1817: Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state of the Union
1864: General Sherman reaches Savannah Georgia and a 12-day siege begins
1869: Women suffrage (right to vote) is granted in the Wyoming Territory
1896: Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish chemist who invented dynamite, dies in San Remo Italy
1898: The Spanish-American War ends: the U.S. acquires the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam
1901: On the fifth anniversary of Nobel’s death, the first Nobel Peace Prizes are awarded
1906: President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 1st American to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize
1915: The one millionth Model-T automobile rolls off the Ford assembly line
1920: President Wilson is awared the Nobel Peace Prize
1931: Jane Addams becomes the first U.S. woman named as a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1948: The U.N. General Assembly adopts its Universal Declaration on Human Rights
1950: Ralph J Bunche becomes the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1953: The first issue of Playboy Magazine goes on sale, featuring a nude centerfold of Marilyn Monroe
1958: The first domestic passenger jet service begins
1964: 35-year old Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. becomes the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
1964: Singer Sam Cooke is slain at a motel in Watts
1965: The Grateful Dead play their first concert (at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco)
1967: Singer Otis Redding dies at age 26, and his band, the “Bar-Kays,” are killed, when their tour airplane crashes
1978: Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
1984: South African Bishop Desmond Tutu receives the Nobel Peace Prize
1986: Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel receives the year’s Nobel Peace Prize
1996: South Africa’s President Nelson Mandela signs into law a new democratic constitution, completing the country’s transition from white-minority rule to a non-racial democracy
BORN ON THIS DAY – December 10th
1787: Thomas H Gallaudet
1805: William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist
1830: Emily Dickinson, poet
1910: John Hammond Sr, NYC, rock/jazz producer
1911: Chet Huntley, newscaster
1941: Tim Considine, actor
