The Bard’s Birthday
April 23, 2008 8:30 am > MAUI TODAY |
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Nat’l Secretary’s Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Haku mele: Poet PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Pawa: Power HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Our leader is a staff that breaks easily.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The quality of mercy is not strain’d. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — “The Green Issue” - NYT Magazine WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — National Geographic PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Earth News BLOG OF THE WEEK — The Environmental Blog
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 23rd
- 1348: The first English order of knighthood is founded (the Order of the Garter)
- 1951: The Associated Press begins the first teletypsetting service
- 1969: Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (the sentence is later reduced to life imprisonment)
- 1980: Artifical skin for burn victims is created
- 1989: Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts
- 1998: James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and then insisted he was framed, dies at a Nashville hospital at age 70
- 2002: American cardinals open their meeting with top Vatican officials to discuss the sex abuse scandal rocking the Roman Catholic Church in the United States
BORN ON THIS DAY — April 23rd
- 1547: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer
- 1564: William Shakespeare, bard
- 1775: M.W. Turner English landscape painter
1791: James Buchanan, 15th U.S. president - 1813: Stephen Arnold Douglas, U.S. senator
- 1858: Max Planck, Nobel physist
- 1891: Sergey Prokofiev, composer
- 1899: Vladimir Nabokov, novelist
- 1916: Bud Wilkinson, college football coach
- 1926: J P Donleavy, novelist
- 1928: Shirley Temple Black, child actress/ambassador
- 1936: Roy Orbison, singer
- 1940: Lee Majors, actor
- 1942: Sandra Dee, actress
- 1949: Blair Brown, tress
- 1949: John Miles, vocal/guitar/keyboards
- 1954: Michael Moore, filmmaker
- 1955: Judy Davis, actress
- 1957: Jan Hooks, actress
- 1960: Steve Clark, rock guitarist
- 1960: Valerie Bertinelli, actress
- 1968: Tim Womack, country musician
