It Didn’t Take Long
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Repeat Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Olelo ho’oweliweli: Threat PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Sutim: Shoot HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The head moves in a confused manner.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worry? If you cannot solve your problem, then what is the use of worrying?” (Shantideva)
WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Medical Marijuana ProCon | Industrial Hemp NORML (National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws)
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — The Magic Weed: History of Marijuana NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Marijuana Policy Project GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Good Deed Foundation
June 3rd, 1977: We recently reported the historical start of “Operation Destroy,” the program now ruefully called “Green Harvest,” where government agents seek marijuana, usually by air, and destroy what they find. On this date, Maui Mayor Mayor Elmer Cravalho receives anonymous death threats over the program. Nothing comes of them.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — June 3rd
1098: Christian Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey
1918: The U.S. Supreme Court rules child labor laws are unconstitutional
1937: The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, marries Wallis Warfield Simpson 1942: Battle of Midway begins: first major battle won by air power
1949: The first African American graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)
1968: Andy Warhol is shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio
1969: The last episode of Star Trek (The Original Series) airs on NBC
1976: U.S. presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1989: Troops in China shoot & kill students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
1999: Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepts a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO air strike
BORN ON THIS DAY — June 3rd
1808: efferson Davis, president of the Confederacy
1811: Henry James, philosophical theologian
1906: Josephine Baker, dancer/singer
1911: Paulette Goddard, actress
1925: Tony Curtis, actor
1926: Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet
1936: Larry McMurtry, author
1942: Curtis Mayfield, singer
1944: Michael Clarke, drummer
1946: Ian Hunter, rocker
1951: Christopher Cross, singer
1952: Billy Powell, keyboards
1969: Anderson Cooper, broadcast journalist
1098: Christian Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey
1918: The U.S. Supreme Court rules child labor laws are unconstitutional
1937: The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, marries Wallis Warfield Simpson 1942: Battle of Midway begins: first major battle won by air power
1949: The first African American graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)
1968: Andy Warhol is shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio
1969: The last episode of Star Trek (The Original Series) airs on NBC
1976: U.S. presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1989: Troops in China shoot & kill students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
1999: Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepts a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO air strike
BORN ON THIS DAY — June 3rd
1808: efferson Davis, president of the Confederacy
1811: Henry James, philosophical theologian
1906: Josephine Baker, dancer/singer
1911: Paulette Goddard, actress
1925: Tony Curtis, actor
1926: Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet
1936: Larry McMurtry, author
1942: Curtis Mayfield, singer
1944: Michael Clarke, drummer
1946: Ian Hunter, rocker
1951: Christopher Cross, singer
1952: Billy Powell, keyboards
1969: Anderson Cooper, broadcast journalist
