Maui Aloha Friday
December 14, 2007 6:30 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays |
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South Pole Discovery Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kaunana: Discover HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The gift is sounded.”
December 14th, 1910: Maui is quarantined because of a breakout of diphtheria.Strangely, no other island has this problem, and the quarantine lasts for just five days.
Diphtheria is an infection of the upper body, lungs, throat, nasal passages, tonsils, and accompanied by fever. It has largely been eradicated from the U.S., with just five cases reported here in the past seven years.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY – December 14th
1793: First state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati
1819: Alabama admitted to the Union as 22nd state
1825: Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
1900: Physicist Max Planck publishes his theory on Quantum Mechanics
1911: South Pole first reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
1981: Israel annexes Golan Heights
BORN ON THIS DAY – December 14th
1503: Nostradamus,astrologer/physician
1546: Tycho Brahe,astronomer
1829: John Mercer Langston, first African American to hold U.S. political office
1897: Margaret Chase Smith, Rep/Sen-R-Maine
1911: Spike Jones, composer
1917: Dan Dailey, dancer/actor
1919: Shirley Jackson, writer
1924: Marion Morgan, singer
1932: Charlie Rich, singer
1935: Lee Remick, actress
1943: Frank Allen, rock vocalist
1946: Patty Duke, actress
1946: Stan Smith, tennis pro
1947: Christopher Parkening, guitarist
1949: Cliff Williams, bass
1958: Mike Scott, rocker
1959: Franco Iglesia, Spanish singer
