Lahaina Noon Today

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Lahaina: Cruel sun
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — San: Sun
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —  “The sun stands over the brain, the shadow retreats into the body.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The sun is but a Morning Star.”  (Henry David Thoreau)
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TODAY – LAHAINA NOON 12:32pm, Kahului & Lahaina:  On one day each May and another each July, the sun will be directly overhead on the major islands of the Hawaiian chain. These two days are called Lahaina Noon, and occur on different dates and times, depending on the latitude.
As the sun moves northward from the Equator toward the Tropic of Cancer, it passes directly overhead at all latitudes in between. When it reaches the Tropic of Cancer on June 22, the farthest north it will appear overhead each year, it is the Summer Solstice. On its return trip south, it will again pass overhead.
Hawaii is the only state in the U.S. that experiences Lahaina Noon because of its location within the tropics (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn). This event had no name until 1990 when Honolulu’s Bishop Museum Planetarium sponsored a naming contest. The winning entry: “Lahaina Noon” in Hawaiian means, “Cruel Sun.” Every location has its own time for local noon and Lahaina Noon.  Lahaina Noon occurs at 12:30pm tomorrow in Hana.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 17th
1879: Hawaii’s first railroad begins operating
1945: The Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds first meeting
1974: John Lennon is ordered to leave the U.S. in 60 days
1975: Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make the first U.S./USSR linkup in space
1979: Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigns and flees into exile in Miami
1996: TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 bound for Paris, explodes, crashing in the Atlantic off Long Island NY, shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport (all 230 people aboard are killed)
1997: After 117 years or operations, the Woolworth Corporation closes its last 400 “five-and-dime” stores, laying off 9,200 employees
2005 The Iraqi Special Tribunal files its first criminal case against Saddam Hussein for a 1982 massacre of Shiites.

BORN ON THIS DAY — July 17th
1889: Erle Stanley Gardner, author
1900: James Cagney, actor
1917: Phyllis Diller, comedienne
1934: Donald Sutherland, actor
1935: Diahann Carroll, actress
1935: P.D.Q. Bach, (Peter Schickele), composer
1939: Spencer Davis, vocalist
1952: David Hasselhoff, actor/singer
1953: Nicolette Larson, country singer
1954: Angela Merkel, Germna PM
1952: Phoebe Snow, singer
1972: Amy Weber, actress