International Women’s Day
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Wahine: Woman PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Meri: Woman HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Women cannot be matched.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —“One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” (Simone de Beauvoir)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Greener Gadgets Design Competition WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Poi Poundahz PODCAST OF THE WEEK — NPR-National Public Radio BLOG OF THE WEEK — The Huffington Post International Women’s Day (IWD) is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women. It is now an official holiday in Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. The tradition sees men honouring their mothers, wives, girlfriends, colleagues, etc with flowers and small gifts. In some countries IWD has the equivalent status of Mother’s Day where children give small presents to their mothers and grandmothers. Read more …
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — March 8th 
Schools on Maui are closed for three days as a measles epidemic sweeps the state. Sadly, no kids could walk around pasty pink because Calamine Lotion would not be invented for two more years. Of course, the measles vaccine was first used in the 1950s, and in 1992, the USFDA stated that there was no benefit to using calamine for any reason it could discover, anyway. Today, the worldwide initiative to eradicate measles has met with great success. Measles cases have dropped 75% worldwide and the U.N. hopes to list measles as destroyed by 2021.
- 1862: The Confederate ironclad “Merrimack” is launched
- 1917: The Russian Revolution breaks out in St Petersburg:
- 1917: U.S. invades Cuba, for a third time
- 1930: Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
- 1934: A photo taken by Edwin Hubble shows as many galaxies as the Milky Way has stars
- 1946: The first helicopter is licensed for commercial use (NYC)
- 1950: The USSR announces it has developed the atomic bomb
- 1965: The first U.S. combat forces (4000 Marines) arrive in Vietnam
- 1973: Paul & Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis
- 1983: IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
- 1983: President Reagan calls the USSR an “Evil Empire”
- 1999: Nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee is fired from his job at the Los Alamos
- 2005: Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed in northern Chechnya
BORN ON THIS DAY — March 8th
- 1841: Oliver Wendell Holmes, 59th Supreme Court justice
- 1859: Kenneth Grahame, author
- 1931: John McPhee, author
- 1943: Lynn Redgrave, actress
- 1945: Mickey Dolenz, , actor/singer
- 1946: Randy Meisner, rock bassist/vocalist
- 1948: Peggy March, singer
- 1953: Jim Rice, Boston Red Sox outfielder
- 1954: Cheryl Baker, rock vocalist
- 1958: Lester Holt, TV news anchor
- 1959: Aidan Quinn, Chicago, actor
- 1964: Peter “Ged” Gill, drummer
- 1976: Freddie Prinze Jr., actor
- 1977: James Van Der Beek, actor
