Birthday of a Princess
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kamili‘i wahine: Princess HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —“The woman Kaiona, who travels in the sunshine.”
Today thru December 30th: Maui Film Festival’s First Light Screenings
December 19th, 1831: Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop’s Birthday. Bernice Pauahi was the great-granddaughter of King Kamehameha I and the last surviving 
descendant of his royal line. Born in Honolulu to Ali‘i Abner Paki and Laura Konia, she married businessman Charles Reed Bishop in 1850 over the objections of her parents. King Kamehameha V offered her the throne before he died, but she declined. Bernice Pauahi never used the title Princess in her lifetime.
On the October 16, 1884, at the age of 52, Bernie Pauahi died of cancer. Her estate of 365, 800 acres is the largest private landowner in the state of Hawaii. The revenues from these lands are used to operate the Kamehameha Schools, which were established in 1887 according to her last will and testament. Read more …
December 19th, 1889: Bishop Museum is founded. Charles Reed Bishop, Hawaii philanthropist and co-founder of Kamehameha Schools and First Hawaiian Bank, built the museum in memory of his late wife Bernice Pauahi Bishop. The Bishop Museum contains the world’s largest collection of Polynesian cultural and scientific artifacts.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY – December 19th
- 1686: Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years
- 1732: Benjamin Franklin begins publication of “Poor Richard’s Almanack”
- 1776: Thomas Paine publishes his first “American Crisis” essay,
- 1777: George Washington & Continental Army winter at Valley Forge
- 1823: Georgia passes the first state birth registration law in the U.S.
- 1842: U.S. recognizes the independence of Hawaii
- 1843: Charles Dickens first publishes his story “A Christmas Carol”
- 1889: The Bishop Museum is founded in Hawaii
- 1910: Rayon is first commercially produced
- 1919: The American Meteorological Society is founded
- 1980: Iran requests $24 billion in guarantees to free the U.S. hostages
- 1998: The 42nd U.S. President, William Clinton, is impeached by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives
BORN ON THIS DAY – December 19th
- 1856: Joseph John Thomson, Nobel physicist
- 1036: Su Tung-p’o, poet/essayist/painter/official
- 1683: Phillip V, first Bourbon king of
- 1790: Sir William Parry, Arctic explorer
- 1821: Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/suffragette
- 1849: Henry Clay Frick, industrialist
- 1852: Albert A Michelson, Nobel physicist
- 1888: Fritz Reiner, conductor
- 1901: Oliver Lafarge, novelist
- 1906: Leonid Brezhnev, first Secretary of USSR
- 1915: Edith Piaf, chanteuse
- 1933: Cecily Tyson, actress
- 1940: Phil Ochs,anti-war folk singer
- 1941: Maurice White, drummer
- 1943: William De Vries, surgeon-inventor
- 1944: Tim Reid, comedian
- 1944: Zal Yanovsky,rock guitarist
- 1945: Elaine Joyce, actress
- 1946: Marianne Faithfull, singer
- 1946: Robert Urich, actor
- 1947: Janie Fricke, country singer
- 1963: Jennifer Beals, actress
- 1972: Alyssa Jane Milano, actress
- 1980: Jake Gyllenhaa, actor
