July 31, 2008
Raphael O'Suna
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There are times when the souls of even those born under the lucky star of Jupiter, feel as if they were “Deep in the shady sadness of a vale.”
Sadness comes to us at all ages, because we value and understand different things at different times. And because we are sharing this planet with others who both affect us and experience their own trials and tribulations.
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July 31, 2008
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 Nat’l Hitchihiking Month
Day 213 of 2008
153 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Hookalakupua: Magic
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Sanguma: Magic
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “Silent is the mouth of the inhospitable.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried.” (Herman Melville)
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 31st
1498: Christopher Columbus, on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, discovers the island of Trinidad
1809: The first practical U.S. railroad track is used (wooden, for horse-drawn cars - Philadelphia)
1811: Mexican revolutionary Miguel Hidalgo, a priest, is executed by the Spanish
1922: 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides the world’s first water skis (Minnesota)
1953: The U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare is created
1966: The U.S. begins bombing the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the North and South Vietnam
1976: In just four hours, 12 inches of rain falls on Big Thompson Canyon in Colorado, creating a flood killing 144 people and causing $30 million in damages
1991: U.S. President Bush I and USSR President Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)
1994: The United Nations authorizes armed intervention, under U.S. command, to restore democracy in Haiti
1995: The Walt Disney Company agrees to acquire Capital Cities-ABC Inc. in a $19 billion deal
2007: The U.N. Security Council unanimously approves a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Sudan’s Darfur region
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BORN ON THIS DAY — July 31st
1919: Primo Levi, chemist/writer
1921: Whitney M Young Jr, civil rights leader
1940: Stanley Jaffe, film producer
1944: Geraldine Chaplin, actress
1946: Bob Welch, rocker (Fleetwood Mac)
1956: Deval Patric, Governor of Massachusetts
1962: Wesley Snipes, actor
1965: J.K. Rowling, British author
1979: B.J. Novak, actor/writer (”The Office”)
