The Future is Now
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Nat’l Ding-A-Ling Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mua: Future HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Whichever way the current goes.”
Tomorrow - December 13th
Hawaii Superferry resumes service to Maui. Read about planned Community actions.
December 12th, 1912
King David Kalakaua decides that Hawaii will need to survive in the modern world, and begins a program of study abroad for 18 of Hawaii’s best students, which the king picks himself.Three, including James Haku‘ola, come from Maui.The 18 students attended college in five countries: Italy Scotland, England, China and Japan. They studied engineering, law, medicine, military science, sculpture, music, and foreign languages. They indeed became Island leaders and parents and grandparents of future leaders.
Fifteen students returned from their studies. Two died of disease in China, and one, Matthew Makalua, married an Englishwoman and settled in London, where he successfully practiced medicine for the rest of his life.
The program was phased out after the “Bayonet Constitution” of 1887 in which the white oligarchy curbed the king’s powers.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY – December 12th
1603: William Shakespeare makes his last recorded stage appearance
1791: The Bank of the U.S. opens
1792: In Vienna, 22-year old Ludwig Von Beethoven receives his first music lesson
1800: Washington DC is established as the capital city of the U.S.
1901: 27-year old Guglielmo Marconi successfully sends the Morse Code
1917: Rev Edward Flanagan founds Boys Town outside Omaha Nebraska
1925: Arthur Heinman coins term “motel,” (a contraction of the phrase “motor hotel”) when he opens the Motel Inn in San Luis Obispo California
1946: A U.N. committee votes to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate, offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr., to be the site of the United Nations headquarters
1947: The United Mine Workers union withdraws from the AFofL
1953: Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in the Bell X-1A rocket plane
1963: Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1964: Shooting starts for Star Trek pilot, “The Cage” (“Menagerie”)
1979: Rhodesia becomes the independent nation of Zimbabwe
1980: U.S.’s copyright law is amended to include computer programs
2000: A divided U.S. Supreme Court halts the presidential recount in Florida
BORN ON THIS DAY – December 12th
1745: John Jay, diplomat/NY governor
1805: William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher
1821: Gustave Flaubert, novelist
1863: Edvard Munch, painter/print maker
1893: Edward G Robinson actor
1915: Frank Sinatra, singer/actor
1918: Joe Williams, jazz singer
1923: Bob Barker, game show emcee
1924: Edward I Koch, (Mayor-D-NYC)
1938: Connie Francis, singer/actress
1940: Dionne Warwick, singer
1941: Tim Hauser, jazz singer
1943: Dicky Betts, rocker
1943: Grover Washington Jr, jazz artist
1957: Cy Curnin, rocker
1962: Holly Gagnier, actress
1964: Rockin’ Jeff, rocker
1970: Jennifer Connelly, actress
