Ballet Evolves on Maui
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TODAY - February 12th, 2008: The all-male Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo comes to the Maui Arts & Cultural Center tonight. Where else can you watch men dressed in tutus re-enacting some of the world’s most famous ballets, for a $10 ticket? We can’t think of anyplace else, that’s for sure.Sometimes, you just have to let art flow over you….
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — February 12th
- 1554: After claiming the throne of England for 9days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded
- 1733: The future state of Georgia is founded by James Oglethorpe at site of Savannah
- 1793: First U.S. fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
- 1870: Women gain the right to vote in the Utah Territory
- 1879: The first artificial ice rink in North America begins operating
- 1880: The National Croquet League organizes (in Philadelphia)
- 1912: Last Ch’ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry P’u-i, abdicates
- 1915: The cornerstone is laid for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
- 1947: The largest single meteorite-fall ever recorded (Eastern Siberia)
- 1955: President Eisenhower sends first the U.S. advisors to South Vietnam
- 1999: The U.S. Senate acquits President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice
- 2002: The war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic began in The Hague.
- 2002: Pakistan charged three men in connection with the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi
- 2004: Defying a California law, San Francisco officials began performing weddings for same-sex couples
BORN ON THIS DAY — February 12th
- 1809: Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President (R-IL)
- 1809: Charles Darwin, theorized evolution
- 1880: John L. Lewis, labor leader
- 1923: Franco Zeffirelli, film director
- 1926: Joe Garagiola,sportscaster/host
- 1930: Arlen Specter, US Senator (R-PA)
- 1934: Bill Russell, NBA Hall of Famer
- 1936: Joe Don Baker, actor
- 1938: Judy Blume, author
- 1950: Steve Hackett, rock guitarist (Genesis)
- 1951: Gil Moore, rocker (Triumph)
- 1956: Arsenio Hall, comedian
- 1958: Andie MacDowell (Rosalie Anderson), actress
- 1959: Omar Hakim, drummer (Dire Straits)
- 1967: Stephen Baldwin, actor
- 1968: Chynna Phillips, singer
- 1969: Josh Brolin, actor
- 1979: Jesse Spencer, actor
- 1980: Christina Ricci, actress
