Bad Friday Full Moon
March 21, 2008 > MAUI TODAY No Comments |
|
Good Friday
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mahina: Moon PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Mun: Moon HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Quickly goes the light of the moon.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told it is a fragment awaiting perfection.” (Tagore) WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — American Library Association WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Frozen in Grand Central Station PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Global Podcasting Directory BLOG OF THE WEEK — The Daily Kos TODAY - Full Moon at 8:40am HST.
With the occurrence of the Equinox yesterday on the 20th and the Full Moon on today the 21st, Christians will observe an early feast of Easter on Sunbday, making today Good Friday in that calendar. As the first Full Moon to occur after the Vernal Equinox, this particular one sets the date of the Christian feast of Easter, and thus fixes the dates of all of the other “moveable feasts” in the Christian religious calendar. It is also known as the Worm Moon, Sap Moon or the Crow Moon in folklore.HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — March 20th
- 1790: Thomas Jefferson named the first Secretary of State
- 1851: Yosemite Valley discovered in California, paradise found
- 1859: Zoological Society of Philadelphia, first in U.S., incorporated
- 1935: Persia becomes Iran
- 1960: South Africa kills 69 African Americans in Sharpeville & outlaws ANC
- 1963: Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closed
- 1965: Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery, AL
- 1984: Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
- 1984: Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
- 1990: Namibia becomes independent of South Africa
- 2000: A divided Supreme Court rules the government lacked authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug.
- 2003: In “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” U.S. ground forces advance one-third of the way to Baghdad
- 2005: Armed with an assinine new law rushed through Congress and signed by President George W. Bush, the attorney for Terri Schiavo’s parents pleaded with a judge to order the brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube re-inserted. (The judge later refused.)
BORN ON THIS DAY — March 20th
- 1685: Johann Sebastian Bach, Germany, composer
- 1768: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist
- 1839: Modest Mussorgsky, composer
- 1869: Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design
- 1869: Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame
- 1880: Hans Hofmann, German/U.S. painter
- 1902: Eddie James “Son” House, folk blues musician
- 1905: Phyllis Mcginley, U.S. poet
- 1906: John D Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist
- 1916: Harold Robbins, novelist
- 1918: Howard Cosell, sportscaster
- 1946: Timothy Dalton, actor
- 1953: Shotgun Johnson, rocker
- 1958: Brad Hall, comedian
- 1958: Gary Oldman, actor
- 1962: Rosie O’Donnell, TV host/comedienne
- 1978: Kevin Federlein, rapper
