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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Maka‘i: Police PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Policman: Police HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —“He knows the big currents and the little currents.”
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — No Mo’ Plastic Bag WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Shift Happens PODCAST OF THE WEEK — TWiT.TV UPCOMING EVENTS — Feb. 22: TONIGHT - Maui Democratic Party Caucus 
February 19th, 1968: The world premiere of “Hawaii Five-O“ is shown at the Royal Theater on Oahu. Shortly thereafter, the show became a CBS television series starring Jack Lord, which ran for 12 years, until 198o.
There is no Hawaii “5-0″ organization, and never has been. However, the name “5-0″ used to denote cops, became street lingo in the 1990’s and has since made its way into movies and television shows. The “Five-O” comes simply from the fact that Hawaii is the U.S. 50th state. When the premiere of the TV show was conceived and filmed, in 1967, Hawaii had been a state for just 8 years, and this was still a novelty.
The theme song remains one of the most recognizable pieces of music in the western world, and has shown up, with strong references to the television show itself, in a large number of plays, movies and television shows. Perhaps the most interesting use of the music in a movie came in the movie “Dish,” which detailed the story of the Australian tracking dish in the Outback used to track the Apollo 11 moon landing. When the U.S. Ambassador to Australia arrives at the site, the local band plays the American National Anthem - the “Theme from Hawaii Five-O.”
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — February 19th
- 1846: Texas state government is formally installed in Austin
- 1861: Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
- 1878: Thomas Alva Edison is granted U.S. patent for the “phonograph”
- 1881: Kansas becomes the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
- 1942: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an executive order giving the military the authority to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans
- 1945: The U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima
- 1977: President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D’Aquino (“Tokyo Rose”)
- 1986: The USSR launches the Mir space station into Earth orbit
- 1986: The U.S. Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide (37 years after the pact was first been submitted for ratification)
- 2004: Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was charged with fraud, insider trading and other crimes
- 2004: After sanctioning more than 2,800 gay marriages, the city of San Francisco sued the state of California, challenging its ban on same-sex marriages.
- 2007 New Jersey became the third state to offer civil unions to gay couples.
BORN ON THIS DAY — February 19th
- 1473: Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer
- 1903: Kay Boyle, novelist
- 1911: Merle Oberon, actress
- 1917: Carson McCullers, novelist
- 1924: Lee Marvin, actor
- 1940: “Smokey” (William) Robinson, singer
- 1943: “Mama” Cass Elliot, singer/actress
- 1948: Tony Iommi, rock guitarist
- 1952: Amy Tan, novelist
- 1955: Jeff Daniels, actor
- 1955: Margaux Hemingway, actress
- 1957: Falco, (John Hoelcel), rock vocalist
- 1960: Prince Andrew, Albert Christian Edward, of Britain
- 1963: Seal, singer/songwriter
- 1966: Justine Bateman, actress
- 1967: Benicio Del Toro, actor
- 1976: Clay Anthony, rocker
