A Disaster of Peaceniks
July 2, 2008 6:07 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays, Maui Curmudgeon |
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UFO Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mai’a: Banana PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Wanpela tasol: Alone HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Lying face up and counting the rafters.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.” (Mark Twain) WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing Maui NETCAST OF THE WEEK — You Look Nice Today GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — John Cusack in MoveOn New Video
July 2nd, 1968: Maui is nearly destroyed, and everything we now hold dear about this island is made nearly extinct, by an overwhelming invasion. Or, at least the nutjob of a mayor thought so. Elmer Cravalho says, “the presence of hippies on Maui is causing more unrest in the community than any event since World War II.” The mayor estimates the number of hippies on the island at 100.World War II…Hippies. World War II..Hippies. Yeah, they come out about equal on my scale, too. Oh wait, it’s unfair. There’s a finger on one side of the scale. Let me give that finger to Mr. Cravalho.
– Maui Curmudgen
– Maui Curmudgen
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 2nd
1832: Native American Black Hawk is defeated in Iowa
1881: President Garfield is shot in Washington DC by Charles J Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker (Garfield dies in September)
1890 Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act
1937: Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator
1947: An object crashes near Roswell, New Mexico that the US Army Air Force later insists is a weather balloon (but eyewitness accounts give rise to speculation it may be an alien spacecraft)
1961: Author Ernest Hemingway, 61, shoots himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho
1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law a sweeping civil rights bill
1971: Oregon enacts the first state litter law
1976: North & South Vietnam are formally reunified
1976: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual punishment
1986: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in two rulings
2002: American Steve Fossett returns to western Australia to become the first person to fly a balloon solo around the world
2007: President George W. Bush commutes the sentence of former aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, sparing him from a two-and-half-year prison term in the CIA leak case.
1832: Native American Black Hawk is defeated in Iowa
1881: President Garfield is shot in Washington DC by Charles J Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker (Garfield dies in September)
1890 Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act
1937: Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator
1947: An object crashes near Roswell, New Mexico that the US Army Air Force later insists is a weather balloon (but eyewitness accounts give rise to speculation it may be an alien spacecraft)
1961: Author Ernest Hemingway, 61, shoots himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho
1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law a sweeping civil rights bill
1971: Oregon enacts the first state litter law
1976: North & South Vietnam are formally reunified
1976: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual punishment
1986: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in two rulings
2002: American Steve Fossett returns to western Australia to become the first person to fly a balloon solo around the world
2007: President George W. Bush commutes the sentence of former aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, sparing him from a two-and-half-year prison term in the CIA leak case.
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 2nd
1894: Walter Brennan, actor
1908: Thurgood Marshall, first black Supreme Court justice
1925: Medgar Evers, African-American rights leader
1925: Patrice Lumumba, revolutionary
1929: Imelda Marcos, former Phillipine first lady
1949: Larry David, writer-director
1952: Linda M Godwin, PhD/astronaut
1956: Jeffrey Cooper, guitarist
1964: Jose Canseco, baseball player
1986: Lindsay Lohan, New York City, actress
1894: Walter Brennan, actor
1908: Thurgood Marshall, first black Supreme Court justice
1925: Medgar Evers, African-American rights leader
1925: Patrice Lumumba, revolutionary
1929: Imelda Marcos, former Phillipine first lady
1949: Larry David, writer-director
1952: Linda M Godwin, PhD/astronaut
1956: Jeffrey Cooper, guitarist
1964: Jose Canseco, baseball player
1986: Lindsay Lohan, New York City, actress
