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May 6, 2008 7:07 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays, Maui Curmudgeon |
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National Nurses Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Komo ino: Invasion PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Plai Fly HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The hand applauds, the mouth assents.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.” (Lindsey Lohan)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — BioWillie.com WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Always on My Mind PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Peace Research Institute BLOG OF THE WEEK — Willie’s God! (Texas Monthly Feature - May, 2008) May 6th, 1937: Nothing much happening on Maui today but boy, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, things were jumping! I know, because my mom told me. She lived in Saddle River, New Jersey, and her family had a beach house on the Jersey shore.
This particular evening, the family decided to go for ice cream and on down to see the landing of the largest rigid aircraft ever built — the zeppelin Hindenburg.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 6th
- 1527: Imperial troops sack Rome (ending the Renaissance)
- 1833: John Deere makes the first steel plow
- 1840: The first postage stamps are issued (Great Britain)
- 1890: The Mormon Church renounces polygamy
- 1937: Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst NJ, killing 36
- 1941: Dictator Josef Stalin assumes the Soviet premiership
- 1954: Medical student Roger Bannister sets the world’s record for the mile-run in Oxford England by breaking the four-minute “barrier” (3:59:4)
- 1994: Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files suit against President Clinton
- 1997: Hemophiliacs who contracted AIDS between 1978 and 1985 from tainted blood products accept a $600 million settlement from four health-care companies
- 2001: John Paul II, during his visit to Syria, becomes the 1st pope to enter a mosque
- 2002: Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is freed after 19 months of being under house arrest
- 2002: Right-wing Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed in Hilversum, Netherlands.
- 2007 Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidency by a comfortable margin over socialist opponent Segolene Royal.
BORN ON THIS DAY — May 6th
- 1758: Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary/advocate
- 1829: Phoebe Ann Coffin, first female ordained minister
- 1856: Robert Edward Peary, arctic explorer
- 1856: Sigmund Freud, father of psychology
- 1895: Rudolph Valentino, actor
- 1905: Toots Shor, raconteur/restauranteur
- 1915: Orson Welles, actor/director
- 1915: Theodore H White, historian/writer
- 1931: Willie Mays, Baseball Hall-Of-Famer
- 1945: Bob Seger, singer
- 1961: George Clooney, actor
- 1964: Dana Hill, actress
