Dairy Gets Milked
May 17, 2008 7:05 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays Dairy Gets Milked |
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Armed Forces Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Waiue: Milk PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Bulmakau: Cattle HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The food hidden in the bosom.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought, I’d rather dance with the cows until you come home.” (Groucho Marx)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — We Can Solve It WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Voter Watch NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Podango Podcasts GOOD DEED OF THE WEEK — Feed the Hungry at FreeRice.com
May 17th, 1982: Pesticide Maui Milk RecalledHeptachlor, that nasty pesticide that Maui Cane & Pineapple used for years on its pineapple fields, gets into cattle feed, and the milk the cows produced, poisoned the milk supply on Oahu. All Maui milk was pulled off shelves, and residents were told to destroy all containerts in their homes.The use of Heptachlor was fully discontinued by 1987 and no poisoned feed was served to bovines thereafter on Maui.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 17th
- 1620: The first merry-go-round is seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
- 1804: Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
- 1970: Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on the reed raft Ra
- 1973: The Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
- 1987: In what the U.S. and Iraq later call “a mistake”, an Iraqi fighter fires missiles at, and hits, the Naval frigate USS Stark (37 sailors die)
- 1989: Nelson Mandela receives a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Africa
- 1996: Preident Clinoton signs “Megan’s Law” into effect, requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in (the law is named for 7-year-old Megan Kanka, who was raped and killed in 1994)
- 2000: Two former Ku Klux Klansmen are arrested on murder charges in the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama
BORN ON THIS DAY — May 17th
- 1444: Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birti of Venus) (564 years ago)
- 1749: Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination (259 years ago)
- 1900: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s spiritual leader (108 years ago)
- 1911: Maureen O’Sullivan, Boyle Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice) (97 years ago)
- 1912: Archibald Cox, first Watergate special prosecutor (96 years ago)
- 1936: Dennis Hopper, actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider) (72 years ago)
- 1942: Taj Mahal, NYC, singer/songwriter (The Real Thing) (66 years ago)
- 1956: Bob Saget, comedian/actor (Danny-Full House, America’s Home Videos) (52 years ago)
- 1963: Brigitte Nielsen, actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV, Domino) (45 years ago)
