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Day 126 of 2008
240 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Poka pahu: bomb
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Bruk: Broken
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Take the digging stick out of the hand.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Bigotry tries to keep the truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.” (Rabindranath Tagore)

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)

Kahoolawe IslandMay 7th, 1994: Kaho’olawe Returned. In a ceremony marked by pomp and circumstance, chants and conch shell wailings, the United States Navy hands over Kaho’olawe Island to the State of Hawaii. Everything you ever wanted to know about Kaho’olawe, including how to volunteer to remove bombs (fun!), can be found at http://www.kahoolawe.org/.

HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 7th

  • 1800: Indiana becomes a territory 
  • 1891: The “Fig Newton” is invented
  • 1895: The first wireless telegraph message is successfully transmitted, received, and deciphered 
  • 1940: Winston Churchill becomes the Prime Minister of Great Britain 
  • 1954: The French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dienbienphu 
  • 1982: IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1 
  • 1997: The Army accuses its top enlisted man, Army Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney, of sexual misconduct
  • 1998: The parent company of Mercedes-Benz, Daimler-Benz, agrees to buy Chrysler Corporation for more than $37 billion 
  • 2000: President Vladimir Putin takes the oath of office in Russia’s first democratic transfer of power 
  • 2003: General Motors delivers six fuel cell vehicles to Capitol Hill in Washington DC for members of Congress, and others, to test drive during the next two years 

BORN ON THIS DAY — May 7th

  • 1812: Robert Browning, poet
  • 1833: Johannes Brahms, composer
  • 1840: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky,  composer 
  • 1861: Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer
  • 1892: Archibald Macleish,  political essayist/poet/dramatist
  • 1892: Marshal Tito, Yugoslavian leader 
  • 1901: Gary Cooper, actor
  • 1919: Eva (Evita) Peron,  first lady/actress
  • 1922: Darren McGavin, actor
  • 1946: Bill Kreutzmann, rock musician
  • 1950: Tim Russert, broadcast journalist
  • 1951: Janis Ian, singer