Superferry Resumes Service

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Day 98 of 2008
268 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Olakino: Health
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Drai: Heal
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Humiliation is a great disease.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —  “Health is the first of all liberties” (H. Amiel) 

 WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Maui Hero Project
 WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Iraq War Veterans Speak Out
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Slate.com Podcasts
 BLOG OF THE WEEK —  BoingBong.com


TODAY – April 7th, 2008:  After nearly two months of maintenance work, the Hawaii Superferry is scheduled to resume service between Oahu and Maui today. Read Star-Bulletin  story …

HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 7th

  •  1652: Dutch settlers establish their settlement at Cape Town South Africa 
  • 1788: The first settlement is founded in Ohio (at Marietta) 
  • 1798: Mississippi becomes a territory 
  • 1862: Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee: Island #10 falls after long siege 
  • 1891: Nebraska introduces the 8-hour work day 
  • 1906: Mount Vesuvius eprupts 
  • 1959: NASA announces selection of the first seven astronauts 
  • 1959: Radar is first bounced off the Sun, from Stanford California. 
  • 1980: President Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during the hostage crisis 
  • 1990: John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) is found guilty for his participation in the Iran-Contra scandal 
  • 1994: Civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after a suspicious plane crash claimed the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi 
  • 2003: In “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” U.S. tanks rumble through downtown Baghdad
  • 2007: A Russian rocket carries American billionaire Charles Simony to the international space station

BORN ON THIS DAY — April 7th

  • 1770: William Wordsworth, poet laureate
  • 1893: Allan W Dulles, CIA director
  • 1915: Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan), singer
  • 1920: Ravi Shankar, sitar player
  • 1928: James Garner, actor
  • 1931: Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon whistleblower, patriot
  • 1932: Mark Russell, satirist
  • 1933: Wayne Rogers,  actor 
  • 1938: Edmund Gerald (Jerry) Brown Jr, (Gov-D-Cal)
  • 1939: David Frost,  TV host
  • 1939: Francis Ford Coppola, Detroit, director  
  • 1943: Mick Abrahams, rock guitarist
  • 1943: Roberta Shore,  actress/singer
  • 1943: Spencer Dryden, rocker
  • 1949: John Oates, rocker