Strawberry Day Day 141 of 2008 225 days left in this year

“A commoner is dark. A chief is darker still.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —  “It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”

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WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — The Smithsonian Museums
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Mathews Exposes Right-Wing Ignoramus
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — NEWSEUM - World’s Most Interactive Museum
 GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Feed the Hungry at FreeRice.com 

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May 20th, 1905: The Territorial police on Maui shoot and kill a Japanese worker at the Pioneer Plantation Mill in Lahaina. The worker was part of a large force that was protesting for - what else? - better working conditions and more pay. Not much more is known of the incident, except that the workers were unarmed, and the police were not charged with any crime. The more things change, the more they stay the same….

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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 20th

• 325: The first Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicea (Asia Minor) 
• 526: An earthquake kills 250,000 people in Antioch, Syria 
• 1506: Christopher Columbus dies, in poverty, in Spain 
• 1845: The first legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii 
• 1902: Cuba is given its independence from the U.S. 
• 1927: Charles Lindbergh takes off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1932: Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 
• 1961: A white mob attacked a busload of “Freedom Riders” in Montgomery, AL
• 1970: 100,000 people demonstrate in NYC’s Wall Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia 
• 1985: The FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for the Soviet Union 
• 1996: The U.S. Supreme Court rules against a Colorado measure that bans laws to protect homosexuals from discrimination  

 

BORN ON THIS DAY — May 20th