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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Lolo: Idiot PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Stilim: Steal HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A thief is also a liar.” WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — 33 Weird Statues & Sculptures WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — “HEY YOU” - Madonna UPCOMING EVENTS — Feb. 22: “Give Peace a Dance”
February, 1934: Hot on the heels of yesterday’s posting, we couldn’t fail to report that Hawaii’s first and only train robbery occurred this month on Kauai.
Again, the Hawaii Historical Society reports in full: “A masked gunman stopped a slow-moving train of the Kekaha Sugar Co. near Mana, Kaua‘i, and escaped with the locomotive and $11,000 taken from the Mana paymaster on board. Police recovered the loot in a swamp near the home of Kaimiola Hali, a fisherman, whose suspicious behavior soon resulted in his arrest and conviction.
Hali, an ardent fan of Western movies, was inspired by some of the films he had seen.”
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — February 4th- 1600: Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for first time
- 1787: Shays’ Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
- 1789: The U.S. Congress meets for the first time under the Constitution
- 1789: The first session of the electoral college chooses Geroge Washington & John Adams as U.S. President and VP
- 1824: J.W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public
- 1846: Mormons leave Nauvoo Missouri to settle, instead, in the West
- 1847: The first U.S. telegraph company is established in Maryland
- 1865: The Hawaiian Board of Education is formed
- 1957: The first electric portable typewriter is placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
- 1962: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opens
- 1972: Senator Strom Thurmond suggests that John Lennon should be deported
- 1974: 19-year old Patricia Hearst is kidnapped in Berkeley, CA by the Symbionese Liberation Army
- 1997: A civil jury in Santa Monica California finds O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman
- 2003: Lawmakers formally dissolved Yugoslavia and replaced it with a loose union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro.
- 2004: The Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marry.
- 2006: Syrians enraged by caricatures of Islam’s prophet torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus.
BORN ON THIS DAY — February 4th
- 1893: Raymond Dart, Australian paleo-anthropologist
- 1902: Charles A. Lindbergh, pilot (1st to fly solo across Atlantic)
- 1904: MacKinlay Kantor, author/newspaperman
- 1906: Clyde W. Tombaugh, astronomer who discovered Pluto
- 1913: Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist
- 1913: Woody (Wayne) Hayes, college football coach
- 1914: Ida Lupino, actress
- 1921: Betty Friedan, feminist writer/activist
- 1937: Collin Wilcox, actor
- 1941: John Steel, rock drummer (Animals)
- 1945: David Brenner, comedian/TV talk show host
- 1947: Dan Quayle, US Vice-President
- 1948: Alice Cooper, (Vincent Furnier), rocker
- 1952: Jerry Shirley, rock drummer (Humble Pie)
- 1952: Lisa Eichhorn, actress
- 1959: Lawrence Taylor, NFL line backer
- 1962: Clint Black, country singer
- 1973: Oscar De La Hoya, boxer
