Waffle Day Day 85 of 2008 281 days left in this year

PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Ples tambu: Forbidden place
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY

 WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Support Tibet Against Chinese Atrocities
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK —  Jib Jab Easter
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Global Podcasting Directory
 BLOG OF THE WEEK —  The Daily Kos

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 March 25th, 1960: The Pioneer Mill Company announces sweeping plans for development of a property it  owns to the northwest of Lahaina — a relatively barren stretch of coastline with a gorgeous beach known as Ka’anapali. The rest, as they say, is dismal history.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — March 25th

• 1655: Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan (Saturn’s largest satellite) 
• 1900: U.S. Socialist Party formed at Indianapolis 
• 1954: RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set 
• 1960: First guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut) 
• 1961: Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona 
• 1965: Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, AL
• 1967: Who & Cream make U.S. debut at Murray the K’s Easter Show 
• 1969: John & Yoko stage their first bed-in for peace (Amsterdam) 
• 1990: Fire in an illegal New York City social club kills 87 people 
• 1996: The U.S. issues its newly-redesigned $100 bill using technologies to combat counterfeiting
• 2004: Congress passed a law making it a separate offense to harm a fetus during a violent federal crime.

BORN ON THIS DAY — March 25th

• 1133: Henry II, King of England
• 1881: Bela Bartok, composer/pianist 
• 1901: Ed Begley,  actor  
• 1925: Flannery O’Connor, novelist
• 1934: Gloria Steinem,  feminist/publisher 
• 1938: Hoyt Axton, singer/actor 
• 1940: Anita Bryant, Miss America candidate/singer/homophobe 
• 1942: Aretha Franklin, singer
• 1942: Paul Michael Glaser, actor
• 1944: Frank Oz, muppetteer  
• 1946: Bonnie Bedelia, actress 
• 1947: Elton John, singer
• 1949: Nick Lowe, rocker
• 1965: Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
• 1967: Debi Thomas,  figure skater
• 1971: Sheryl Swoops, basketball forward