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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Paikaloa‘a: Capitalism PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Biknait: Dead of night HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —“No hala fruit shows its color in the darkness of night.”
January 14th, 1942: The statewide repeal of the law prohibiting businesses from transacting business on Sundays goes into effect, thus allowing stores to open seven days a week. The repeal was part of a negotiation between the state government and local businesses, which had lost considerable trade because nighttime business was shut down due to the war. Blackouts (fearing further Japanese attacks) prevented anyone doing much of anything except by candlelight and behind covered windows.
After the war, the old prohibition was permanently removed from the law books, and business as usual resumed.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — January 14th
- 1690: The clarinet is invented (Nurnberg Germany)
- 1699: Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for wrongly persecuting “witches”
- 1784: The Continental Congress ratifies the Paris peace treaty ending the Revolutionary War
- 1794: The first successful Caesarean section performed in the U.S.
- 1914: Henry Ford introduces the “assembly line” for his cars
- 1952: NBC’s “Today” show premiers
- 1954: Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star Joe DiMaggio
- 1967: 20,000 attend the 1st Human Be-In (San Francisco)
BORN ON THIS DAY — January 14th
- 1875: Albert Schweitzer
- 1886: Hugh Lofting, English/American writer & illustrator
- 1892: Hal Roach, early film director/producer
- 1896: John dos Passos, novelist
- 1906: William Bendix, actor
- 1913: Tillie Olsen, American writer
- 1920: Andy Rooney, commentator
- 1926: Thomas Tryon, actor/novelist
- 1935: Loretta Lynn, singer
- 1938: Allen Toussaint, musician (Wild Sign of New Orleans)
- 1940: Julian Bond, (D-Ga) civil rights leader
- 1941: Faye Dunaway, actress
- 1944: Nina Totenberg, braodcast jourmalist
- 1949: Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter/director
- 1952: Maureen Dowd, columnist
- 1965: Vanity, (Dee Dee Williams), singer/actress
- 1963: Steven Soderbergh, director
- 1967: Emily Watson, actress
- 1968: LL Cool J (James Todd Smith), actor/rapper
- 1969: Jason Bateman, actor
