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PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Nait: Night
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY

TODAY - Martin Luther King, Jr.  holiday
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968), was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement. He was a Baptist minister and became a civil rights activist early in his career. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. 

HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — January 21st

• 1789: The first American novel, W.H. Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy,” is published 
• 1793: France’s King Louis XVI, convicted of treason, is beheaded by the guillotine
• 1799: Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccination is introduced 
• 1887: The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms 
• 1935: The Wilderness Society is founded 
• 1977: President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders 
• 1997: Speaker Newt Gingrich is fined as the House votes for first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct 
• 1998: Actor Jack Lord, of “Hawaii Five-O” fame, dies in Honolulu at age 77 
• 2001: Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist convicted three decades after the fact for assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers, dies in Jackson Mississippi at age 80 
• 2003: The U.S. Census Bureau announce that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America’s largest minority group.

BORN ON THIS DAY — January 21st