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Rubber Eraser Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Auhau: Tax (ow ow?) PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Takis: Tax HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Try to end the panic.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.” (John Maynard Keynes)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Draft of Maui County General Plan WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — JibJab.com PODCAST OF THE WEEK — The Ethicist, NYT BLOG OF THE WEEK — TheRoot.com
TODAY – April 15th, 2008: Federal Income Taxes Due
April 15th, 1889: Father Damien dies at Kaluapapa, the “leper colony” for sufferers of Hansen’s disease, located on Molokai. He dies of leprosy.Also, there’s a small happening today throughout the U.S. If you don’t know what that is, you probably need this: www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4868.pdf
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 15th
- 1598: Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
- 1800: James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic pole
- 1892: General Electric Company incorporated.
- 1931: The first walk across American backwards began
- 1955: Ray Kroc starts the McDonald’s chain of fast food restaurants
- 1957: Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
- 1959: Fidel Castro begins U.S. goodwill tour
- 1974: Military coup in Niger
- 1997: Jackie Robinson’s shirt number (#42) is retired 50 years after he became the first African American player in Major League Baseball
- 1998: Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge, dies at age 73 (thereby evading prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians in the 1970s)
BORN ON THIS DAY — April 15th
- 1452: Leonardo da Vinci, painter/sculptor/scientist/
- 1469: Nanak, first guru of Sikhs
- 1707: Leonhard Euler, mathematician
- 1741: Charles Willson Peale,port painter/inventor
- 1843: Henry James, writer/critic
- 1889: Thomas Hart Benton, painter/muralist
- 1898: Bessie Smith, blues singer
- 1922: Harold Washington, first African American mayor of Chicago
- 1933: Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
- 1935: Roy Clark, country singer
- 1940: Phil Lesh, bassist
- 1959: Emma Thompson, British actress
- 1968: Ed O’Brien, rock musician
- 1990: Emma Watson, actress (“Harry Potter” movies)
