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January 29, 2008 6:34 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays |
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Free Thinkers Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pua’i Wai: Fountain PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Yia: Year HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The lava is heaped at the house of Kaupo.” WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — World Clock WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Barack Obama South Carolina victory speech
January 29th, 1960: Visitors and residents on the Hana side of Maui report that at night they can see an orange glow from the southern tip of the Big Island. No surprise there: in perhaps the largest eruption recorded in modern Hawaiian times, Kilauea now has seven fountains of lava gushing up to five hundred feet high. The molten rock falls to earth and forms two wide and fast moving rivers that quickly make their way to the ocean.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — January 29th
- 1613: Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
- 1802: John Beckley of Virginia is appointed to be the first Librarian of Congress
- 1834: President Jackson orders the first use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute
- 1861: Kansas becomes the 34th state
- 1877: Congress establishes the Electoral Commission
- 1886: The first successful gasoline-driven car is patented (Karl Benz, Karlsruhe)
- 1919: The 18th Amendment is ratified and Prohibition goes into effect
- 1979: President Carter commutes Patricia Hearst’s 7-year sentence to 2 years
- 1989: The Episcopal church appoints its first female bishop
- 1990: Former Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood, goes on trial in Anchorage, AK
- 1998: A bomb explodes at an abortion clinic in Birmingham Alabama, killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse
BORN ON THIS DAY — January 29th
- 1700: Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician
- 1737: Thomas Paine, political essayist
- 1843: William McKinley, 25th US president (R)
- 1866: Romain Rolland, writer
- 1874: John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist
- 1880: W C Fields, actor
- 1908: Adam Clayton Powell, (Rep-D-NY)
- 1912: Professor Irwin Corey, comedian
- 1923: Paddy Chayevsky, dramatist
- 1939: Germaine Greer, feminist/author
- 1945: Tom Selleck, actor
- 1954: Oprah Winfrey, TV host/actress
- 1974: Sara Gilbert, actress
