Maui Air Trajedy Anniversary
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ho’okalakupua: Magic PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Garans: Guaranteed HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The stars are the spies of heaven.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The world makes you into a bitch, no matter how quietly you go, so you may as well go kicking and screaming.” – Roseanne Barr WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — The Daily Beast - Tina Brown’s latest WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Wassup 2008 NETCAST OF THE WEEK — 23/6 – “Some of the News Most of the Time” GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — FactCheck.orgISLAND NEWS ARCHIVES - October 28, 1989:
Tragedy strikes Maui County - An Island Air commuter flight from Maui heading to Molokai crashes into a cliff near the Halawa Valley on Molokai, killing all 20 passengers and crew aboard. Eight of the passengers were the Molokai High School volleyball team The plane crashed into a cliff just below the ridgeline, spreading debris more than 300 feet away.
Tragedy strikes Maui County - An Island Air commuter flight from Maui heading to Molokai crashes into a cliff near the Halawa Valley on Molokai, killing all 20 passengers and crew aboard. Eight of the passengers were the Molokai High School volleyball team The plane crashed into a cliff just below the ridgeline, spreading debris more than 300 feet away.
Molokai has the world’s steepest sea cliffs, rising vertically more than 3,000 feet from sea level. They have proved deadly a number of times, more recently in 1996, when another commuter plane, this one carrying State Democratic chair Robert McCarthy and Maui County Councilman Tom Morrow crashed into those same cliffs, killing all eight aboard.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — October 28th
1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba
1636 Harvard University (Boston) established
1776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin
1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by the 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC
1890 Last NL-AA World Series game Brooklyn ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie
1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
1900 After over 5 months the Paris Olympic games close
1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints
1911 Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
1914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
1918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson’s veto
1922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy’s government
1924 White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend
1929 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl
1934 Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game
1936 FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
1940 Greece successfully resists Italy’s attack
1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
1946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
1948 Flag of Israel is adopted
1953 Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)
1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII
1959 Buffalo Bills enter the AFL
1961 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets
1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
1962 NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34)
1965 Gateway Arch (630′ (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
1965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
1966 Belgium’s Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
1970 NBA Cleve Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
1970 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
1971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit
1971 John & Yoko record “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” in NYC
1973 Elmore Smith of the Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)
1974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall
1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
1976 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (NY Yankees)
1977 TV’s Rhoda gets married
1978 Donald Ritchie ran the fastest 100 Km ever, doing it in 7.2722
1979 Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin
1981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
1982 NASA launches RCA-E
1986 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB
1986 KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM’s final transmission
1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
1988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to U Wash library
1989 Oakland A’s sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series
1636 Harvard University (Boston) established
1776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin
1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by the 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC
1890 Last NL-AA World Series game Brooklyn ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie
1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
1900 After over 5 months the Paris Olympic games close
1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints
1911 Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
1914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
1918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson’s veto
1922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy’s government
1924 White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend
1929 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl
1934 Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game
1936 FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
1940 Greece successfully resists Italy’s attack
1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
1946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
1948 Flag of Israel is adopted
1953 Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)
1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII
1959 Buffalo Bills enter the AFL
1961 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets
1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
1962 NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34)
1965 Gateway Arch (630′ (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
1965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
1966 Belgium’s Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
1970 NBA Cleve Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
1970 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
1971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit
1971 John & Yoko record “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” in NYC
1973 Elmore Smith of the Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)
1974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall
1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
1976 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (NY Yankees)
1977 TV’s Rhoda gets married
1978 Donald Ritchie ran the fastest 100 Km ever, doing it in 7.2722
1979 Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin
1981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
1982 NASA launches RCA-E
1986 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB
1986 KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM’s final transmission
1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
1988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to U Wash library
1989 Oakland A’s sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series
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DEAD ON THIS DAY — October 28th
900 Alfred the Great English monarch, dies
1957 Anthony J Morabito co-owner of SF ‘49ers, dies while watching a game
1980 Leon Janney actor (Hawk), dies at 63
1987 Andr‚ Masson France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91
1991 John Korbal film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51
1957 Anthony J Morabito co-owner of SF ‘49ers, dies while watching a game
1980 Leon Janney actor (Hawk), dies at 63
1987 Andr‚ Masson France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91
1991 John Korbal film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51
