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May 27, 2008 6:29 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays |
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Mahie: Charming PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Knopesen: Confession HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “There is only only one remedy — repentance.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.” (James Branch Cabell) WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Curiosity WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — My Stroke of Insight NETCAST OF THE WEEK — 10-Minute Lessons GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — ModestNeeds.orgMay 27th, 1910: He never came to Maui but that’s OK, he was a genius. Alexander Graham Bell arrived in Honolulu for a single day visit on his around-the-world trip. In his interview, he made a prediction universally laughed at: that within 10 years, transpacific airships would serve Hawaii. Now, of course, they keep business in the state alive.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 27th
1647: The first recorded American execution of a witch (Massachusetts)
1844: Samuel F B Morse completes the first telegraph line
1937: The Golden Gate Bridge is dedicated and has its “Pedestrian Day” (it opens for traffic tomorrow)
1960: Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
1994: After spending two decades in exile, Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia
1995: Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed when thrown from his horse during a jumping event in Charlottesville Virginia
1996: In his first meeting with the Chechnya rebels, Russian President Boris Yeltsin negotiates a cease-fire to the war in Chechnya
1998: Michael Fortier, key witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, is sentenced to 12 years in prison for his complicity (he apologizes for not warning anyone)
1999: A U.N. tribunal indicts Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity in Koscovo
2006: A 6.3-magnitude earthquake in central Indonesia killed at least 5,800 people.
1794: Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire
1818: Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette
1836: Jay Gould, U.S. railroad executive
1837: Wild Bill Hickok, law enforecement officer
1907: Rachel Louise Carson, ecologist/writer
1911: Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn) 38th VP
1911: Vincent Price, actor
1912: John Cheever, writer
1912: Sam Snead, PGA golfer
1915: Herman Wouk, author
1922: Christopher Lee, actor
1923: Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State
1930: John Barth, novelist
1935: Ramsey Lewis, pop jazz artist
1936: Louis Gossett Jr, actor
1943: Bruce Weitz, actor
1948: Pete Sears, bassist
1970: Joseph Fiennes, actor
