Fabulous Wild Men Day Day 12 of 2008 354 days left in this year

: Anger
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Buss up: Broken, damaged
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —
“The fire blazed up, then only ashes were left.”

On January 12, 1900, the rookie illegal government just formed for Hawaii in 1896 came up with a novel solution to a terrible problem. Bubonic plague had broken out in Honolulu, and it seemed concentrated around Chinatown. The government decided to burn Chinatown down. Riots erupted when Chinese merchants protested the planned fires. While a haphazard collection of men formed a fire brigade, government officials (there were no “departments” as yet) set fires in key places, and armed security forces battled the merchants.Thinking that Oahu had gone nuts, people here on Maui decided that for the next week, no boat would be allowed to land from the Oahu. Many feared that plague carriers would arrive, and the same disasters would befall Maui. This didn’t sit well with Maui merchants, who relied on boat deliveries to stock their shelves. So fights broke out at Kahului Harbor and in Wailuku.

On January 12, 1960, Mt. Kilauea Volcano errupts with what is reported to be a “two-mile-long curtain of fire on Puna.” Homes, businesses, and people are damaged, but amazingly no one is reported killed. On Maui, the “vog” covers Kihei to Wailuku in a brown haze and is reported to extend a mile high .

On January 12, 2007. Just last year on this date, a detailed study reported that although the living expenses in Hawaii were among the highest in the country, the average Hawaiian wage was slightly below the national average.

Today, January 12, 2008. And finally, continuing eruptiuons from Mt. Kilauea Volcan0 for over 25 years have endangered Puna again, and homes have again been evacuated in this area of the Big Island.

Sigh …

HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — January 12th

• 1733: The first public museum in America opens (Charleston South Carolina)
• 1777: Mission Santa Clara de Asis is founded in California
• 1820: The Royal Astronomical Society is founded in England
• 1906: The football rules committee legalizes the forward pass
• 1915 The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote
• 1932: Hattie Caraway is elected to be the first female senator (Arkansas)
• 1937: The plow for laying submarine cable is patented
• 1948: Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast
• 1971: A Federal grand jury indicts Reverand Philip Berrigan, and five others (including a nun and two priests) on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger
• 1998: Linda Tripp provides Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky
• 2006 A stampede broke out during the Islamic hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, killing 363 people

BORN ON THIS DAY — January 12th

• 1588: John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
• 1737: John Hancock, patriot (First to sign Declaratinn of Independence)
• 1856: John Singer Sargent, U.S. painter
• 1863: Vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer
• 1876: Jack London, writer/socialist
• 1893: Hermann Goering, Nazi propaganda minister
• 1905: Tex Ritter, Western singer/actor
• 1910: Luise Rainer, actress
• 1915: Martin Agronsky, journalist
• 1916: A P(ieter) W Botha, president of South Africa
• 1943: Ray Manzarek, rock pianist (Doors-Light my Fire)
• 1944: Joe Frazier, heavyweight champion boxer
• 1945: Maggie Bell, rocker
• 1946: Cindy Robinson, rock trumpeteer (Sly & Family Stone-Everyday People)
• 1949: Rush Limbaugh, right-wing radio talk show host
• 1951: Kirstie Alley, actress
• 1952: Walter Mosley, author
• 1952: Ricky Van Shelton, country singer
• 1954: Howard Stern, radio talk show hos
• 1957: John Lasseter, writer, director
• 1958: Christiane Amanpour, broadcast journalist
• 1960: Charlie Gillingham, rock musician (Counting Crows)
• 1060: Oliver Platt, actor
• 1964: Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO Amazon.com
• 1968: Rachael Harris, actress
• 1970: Zack de la Rocha, rock singer (Rage Against the Machine)
• 1974: Melanie Chisholm, singer (Spice Girls)