Rover Comes Home Early
June 22, 2008 9:09 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays![]() |
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ilio: Dog
June 22, 2003: The state of Hawaii finally relents and joins the 20th century regarding animals. Until this date, anyone who wanted to bring to Maui a family pet had to quarantine the animal for 30 to 120 days, depending on the vaccination status. For years, a new process for rabies detection had been in place which validated an animal free or rabies within five days, but the state refused to use the process because of all the civil servants hired to work within the old system. (And yes, that’s a live puppy in the photo.)EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 22nd
1342: Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End (Shire Reckoning)
1772: Slavery outlawed in England
1808: Zebulon Pike reaches his peak, Pike’s in Colorado
1847: The doughnut is invented
1870: Congress creates the U.S. Department of Justice
1940: France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed
1941: Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
1944: FDR signs G.I. Bill of Rights, benefitting those who served in WW II
1970: President Richard Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18
1977: Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell begin sserving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up
1981: Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing rock musician John Lennon
2004: A federal judge approves a class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit representing 1.6 million female workers against Wal-Mart
BORN ON THIS DAY - June 22nd
1757: George Vancouver, explorer/surveyor
1856: H Rider Haggard, author
1858: Giacomo Puccini, operatic composer
1887: Julian Huxley, biologist/philosopher
1898: Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist
1906: Billy Wilder, movie director
1907: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American aviator/author
1909: Michael Todd, producer
1921: Joseph Papp, stage producer/director
1922: Bill Blass, fashion designer
1928: Orson Bean, comedian
1933: Dianne Feinstein, (Mayor-D-SF, US Senator)
1936: Kris Kristofferson, singer/actor
1941: Ed Bradley, CBS news correspondent
1947: Don Henley, drummer/singer
1948: Todd Rundgren, rock singer
1949: Lindsay Wagner, actress
1949: Meryl Streep, actress
1954: Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor
1964: Amy Brenneman, actress
1964: Dan Brown, author


