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National Freedom Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kelalani: Astronaut PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Susu: Breast HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “He has the speed of a canoe.” WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — World Clock WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Barack Obama South Carolina victory speech 
February 1st, 1980: The first Hawaiian born astronaut - Ellison Onizuka - begins his secret three-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. He was the expert in charge of placing a secret eavesdropping satellite over the Soviet Union. Onizuka returned to earth on February 3, the mission a success.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — February 1st
- 1790: U.S. Supreme Court convenes for first time (in New York City)
- 1861: Texas votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy
- 1862: Julia Howe publishes “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
- 1893: Thomas Edison completes the world’s first movie studio (West Orange NJ)
- 1906: The first federal penitentiary building is completed (Leavenworth Kansas)
- 1920: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is established
- 1951: The first telecast of atomic explosion
- 1960: Four African American college students stage the first civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro Woolworth, refusing to move from a Woolworth’s lunch counter after being refused service
- 1972: The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (costs $395)
- 1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile
- 1979: Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery
- 1982: “Late Night with David Letterman” premieres on NBC-TV
- 1991: South African President F W de Klerk, publicly states he will repeal all apartheid laws
- 1999: The Morse code “SOS” is officially retired (replaced by the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System)
- 2003: The space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all seven crew members.
- 2004: Singer Janet Jackson’s entire breast was briefly exposed during a duet with Justin Timberlake during the Super Bowl halftime show. Timberlake later referred to the incident as a “wardrobe malfunction.”
BORN ON THIS DAY — February 1st
- 1859: Victor Herbert, composer
- 1895: John Ford, film director
- 1901: Clark Gable, actor
- 1902: Langston Hughes, poet/author/translator
- 1904: S.J. Perelman, author/humorist
- 1918: Muriel Spark, novelist
- 1926: Stuart Whitman, actor
- 1928: Tom Lantos, US congressman (D-CA)
- 1931: Boris Yeltsin, Russian president
- 1937: Don Everly, singer
- 1937: Garrett Morris, comedian
- 1943: Terry Jones, comedian (Monty Python)
- 1952: Rick James, rock/soul/funk vocalist
- 1954: Mike Campbell, guitarist (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers)
- 1965: Brandon Lee, actor
- 1968: Lisa Marie Presley (Elvis’ daughter)
- 1970: Pauly Shore, comedian
- 1971: Michael C. Hall, actor
