No Celebration Here
May 8, 2008 5:43 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays |
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Red Cross Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ho’olaule’a: Party PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Mekim Misa: Celebrate Mass HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Where people are, life is.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I don’t want to be known as the grandaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.” (Paris Hilton) 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 8th, 1945: President Harry S. Truman announces the unconditional surrender of Germany, and Maui joins Hawaii in not celebrating. It was Governor Stainback’s decision not to celebrate V-E Day. He felt that with the war waging still in the Pacific, and Hawaii in the middle of it, celebrations could wait. V-J day came on August 15, 1945.HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 8th
- 1541: Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River
- 1792: British Captain George Vancouver sights and names Mount Rainier Washington
- 1902: Mt. Pelee, a volcano on Martinique Island in the Canary Islands, erupts killing 30,000
- 1945: President Truman announces in a radio address that World War II has ended in Europe
- 1961: The first practical seawater conversion plant in the U.S.
- 1967: Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in the U.S. Army
- 1993: A NYC subway train, with 2,000 passengers, is hijacked for three hours by a 16-year old (Keron Thomas) disguised as a motorman.
- 1737: Edward Gibbon, historian
- 1828: Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA
- 1846: Oscar Hammerstein, opera/playwright
- 1884: Harry S Truman, , 33rd U.S. president
- 1895: Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer
- 1926: Don Rickles, comedian
- 1926: Richard F Attenborough, environmentalist/zoologist
- 1928: Theodore Sorenson, presidential advisor
- 1937: Thomas Pynchon, novelist
- 1940: Peter Benchley, author
- 1940: Ricky Nelson, rock star
- 1944: Gary Glitter English rocker
- 1955: Alex Van Halen, rock musician
- 1975: Enrique Iglesias, singer
- 1985: Julia Whelan, actress
BORN ON THIS DAY — May 8th
