Colder Than a Witch’s?
January 2, 2008 7:19 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays |
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Fruitcake Toss Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Anu: Cold HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Cold are the nights without a mate.”
Today: Earth at Perihelion (closest to the sun)
January 2, 1961: At the summit of Haleakala, the coldest temperature ever recorded for the state of Hawaii: 14 degrees F.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY – January 2nd
- 1800: The free African American community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slavery
- 1839: French photographer Louis Daguerre takes the first photograph of the Moon
- 1842: The first U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania
- 1890: Alice Sanger becomes the first female White House staffer
- 1910: The first junior high schools in the U.S. open in Oakland California
- 1923: The Ku Klux Klan makes a surprise attack on the black residential area of Rosewood Florida
- 1944: Helicopters are first used during warfare
- 1960: University of California-Berkeley physicist John Reynolds announces he has calculated that the solar system was formed 4,950,000,000 years ago
- 1968: Dr. Christian Barnard performs the first successful heart transplant (Capetown South Africa)
- 1971: California enacts the “No Fault” divorce law
- 1978: Rhino Records releases their first album (“Wildmania”)
- 1995: Scientists discover the most distant galaxy yet using the Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated to be 15 billion light years away)
BORN ON THIS DAY – January 2nd
- 1920: Isaac Asimov, scientist/writer
- 1930: Julius LaRosa, singer
- 1932: Dabney Coleman, actor
- 1936: Roger Miller, country singer
- 1939: Jim Bakker, convicted televangelist
- 1949: Chick Churchill, keyboardist
- 1968: Cuba Gooding Jr, actor
- 1971: Taye Diggs, actor
- 1971: Scott Underwood, rock musician
- 1975: Doug Robb, rock singer
- 1978: Chris Hartman, country musician
- 1983: Kate Bosworth, actress
