Molokai Gets Cable
April 3, 2008 12:36 pm > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays |
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April 3rd, 1890: Molokai becomes the latest Hawaiian island to get cable: undersea cable for telegrams and such, of course, not HDTV. The cable was laid on the ocean floor between Koko Head on Oahu and “Molokai” (nope, no one can say where the cable came in; we guess Molokai wasn’t that important. “It’s all Molokai, Fred, just poke the cable out right here and let’s call it a day.”) It’s unconfirmed, but legend has it that the first message sent from Molokai to Oahu read: “Stinking haoles go home.”
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 3rd
- 1910: Alaska’s Denali (Mount McKinley) is first climbed successfully
- 1933: The first airplane flight is made over Mt. Everest
- 1965: The first atomic-powered spacecraft launched
- 1968 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his “mountaintop” speech to a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, TN less than 24 hours before he was assassinated.
- 1975: Bobby Fischer is stripped of the world chess title for refusing to defend it
- 1996: An Air Force jetliner carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 people aboard
- 1996: “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski is arrested
- 2003: In “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” the U.S. Army attacks Saddam International Airport outside of Baghdad
BORN ON THIS DAY — April 3rd
- 1783: Washington Irving, writer
- 1823: William Macy “Boss” Tweed, corrupt NYC political boss
- 1837: John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast
- 1904: Sally Rand, U.S., actress/ecdysiast/fan dancer
- 1924: Marlon Brando, actor
- 1926: 40 Virgil I. Grissom, astronaut
- 1930: Helmut Kohl, chancellor (Germany)
- 1934: Jane Goodall, ethologist
- 1942: Wayne Newton, singer
- 1944: Tony Orlando, singer
- 1958: Alec Baldwin, actor
- 1961: Eddie Murphy, actor
- 1970: Ricky Schroder, actor
- 1970:James MacDonough, rock musician
- 1972 Jennie Garth, actress
- 1975: Aries Spears, comedian
