Peanut Butter Day Day 61 of 2008 305 days left in this year

PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Kau: Cattle
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY

 WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — No Mo’ Plastic Bag
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Screen Cleaner
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Slate
 BLOG OF THE WEEK — Nader’s Nadir

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March 1, 1917: H.A.Baldwin and “F.F.” (nope we don’t know who the heck this could be. If you do, let us know) buy the island of Lanai for $588,000, or using the CPI to calculate, $9.2 million in 2008 dollars. We think they got a deal.They wanted Lanai to grow cattle. It didn’t really work out, and by 1920 they began to grow pineapple. That didn’t work out either, as pineapple isn’t grown there today. Now they want to grow resorts. Let’s hope it’s a trifecta.

ON THIS DAY — March 1st

• 1790: The first U.S. census is authorized by Congress 
• 1867: Nebraska becomes the 37th state 
• 1872: Congress authorizes the creation of Yellowstone National Park (the world’s first national park) 
• 1879: The Library of Hawaii is founded 
• 1932: 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell New Jersey (the remains of the baby are found and identified on May 12th) 
• 1937: The first permanent automobile license plates are issued (Connecticut) 
• 1947: The International Monetary Fund begins operations 
• 1954: U.S. explodes a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll 
• 1969: Jim Morrison is arrested for exposing himself at the Dinner Key Auditorium 
• 1974: The Watergate grand jury indicts seven Presidential aides in crimes associated with the “burglary” at the Democratic Party offices in Washington DC 
• 2002: NASA reports that the Mars Odyssey spacecraft has found evidence of vast regions of water that may exist on the red planet 
• 2002: The Archdiocese of Boston yields to pressure from prosecutors and agrees to turn over the names of people allegedly molested by priests 

BORN ON THIS DAY — March 1st

• 1810: Frederic Chopin, composer/pianist
• 1880: Lytton Strachey, biographer/critic
• 1904: Glenn Miller, bandleader 
• 1909: David Niven,  actor
• 1917: Dinah Shore,  singer/actress
• 1917: Robert Lowell, poet/pacifist
• 1919: Lawrence Ferlinghetti,  poet
• 1920: Howard Nemerov, 3rd U.S. poet laureate/novelist
• 1921: Richard (Purdy) Wilbur, 2nd U.S. Poet Laureate
• 1922: Yitzak Rabin, premier (Israel)
• 1924: Donald “Deke” K Slayton, Major USAF/astronaut
• 1926: Pete Rozelle, NFL commissioner  
• 1927: Harry Belafonte,  Calypso singer 
• 1934: Jim Ed Brown,  country singer
• 1935: Robert Conrad, actor
• 1944: Mike D’Abo, rock vocalist
• 1944: Roger (Harry) Daltrey, actor/rocker/singer
• 1945: Burning Spear (Winston Rodney), Jamaican reggae singer 
• 1947: Alan Thicke,  actor
• 1953: Ron Howard, ctor/director
• 1958: Nik Kershaw, singer/songwriter