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Greenery Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kaua kuloko: Civil War PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Pait: War HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Distance is ignored by love.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The art of war is simple enough.” (U.S.Grant)
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April 29th, 1865: Three weeks after the end of Civil War, the news of its completion finally reaches Hawaii on the steamer Archer. We have little to say about this except that the mirage of freedom for blacks at the end of the Civil War predates the U.S. overthrow of the Hawaiian nation by 30 years.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 29th
- 1429: Joan of Arc leads Orleans France to victory over English forces
- 1813: Rubber is first patented
- 1852: The first edition of Peter Roget’s Thesaurus is published
- 1913: Zipper patented
- 1916: Irish nationalists surrender to British in Dublin
- 1945: U.S. troops liberate prisoners from the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
- 1946: 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
- 1971: Bill Graham closes down the Fillmore & Fillmore East
- 1990: Wrecking cranes begin tearing down the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate
- 1991: A cyclone hits Bangladesh killing 139,000 people and leaving 10 million homeless
- 1992: A California jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of wrong-doing in the beating of Rodney King (riots begin in Los Angeles)
- 1996: Former CIA Director William Colby goes missing and is presumed drowned after an apparent boating accident in Maryland
- 1997: A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons goes into effect
- 2004: A national monument to the 16 million U.S. men and women who served during World War II opened to the public in Washington DC
BOR ON THIS DAY — April 29th
- 1854: Henri Poincare, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher
- 1863: William Randolph Hearst, newspaper editor/puglisher
- 1899: Duke Ellington, bandleader
- 1909: Tom Ewell, actor
- 1919: Celeste Holm, NYC, actress
- 1923: Irvin Kershner, film director
- 1933: Rod McKuen, singer/composer
- 1936: April Stevens, rock vocalist
- 1936: Zubin Meta, conductor
- 1947: Tommy James, singer
- 1954: Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
- 1958: Daniel Day-Lewis, actor,
- 1958: Michelle Pfeiffer, actress
- 1968: Carnie Wilson, singer
- 1970: Andre Agassi, tennis player
- 1970: Uma (Karuna) Thurman, actress
