Superferry Resumes Service
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Nat’l Public Health Week
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.comTODAY - 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
