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 Celtic Samhain
Day 305 of 2008
61 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
‘Apiki: Treachery, treason
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Hul: Grave
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “It’s a pig strangling.” (the act of a traitor)
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —
“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” – Keats
CELTIC SAMHAIN: “Summer’s End” in the Wicken year marks the death of the Sun-God, who then awaits his re-brith from the Mother Goddess at Yule (Winter Solstice). Among the traditional Celts, Samhain was celebrated as New Year’s Eve because their calendar year began on November 1st. More >
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ISLAND NEWS ARCHIVES – October 31, 1889
A Honolulu jury acquits Robert W. Wilcox on the charges of treason for the 1889 rebellion which he led against the “reform government” in his attempt to restore the Hawaiian monarchy to power. Wilcox was born in 1855 on Maui. His parents sent him to Haleakala Boarding School in Makawao. After graduation, Wilcox became a teacher upcountry. In 1880, Wilcox was elected to the Royal Legislature in Honolulu. He represented the citizens of Wailuku and surrounding area.
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY – October 31
1517: Martin Luther posts his “95 Theses” on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany
1864: Nevada becomes the 36th state
1952: The first thermonuclear bomb is detonated (Marshall Islands)
1954: The Algerian Revolution for independence begins (to free the country from French rule)
1968: President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
1988: The first Monday Night NFL game is televised (in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23)
1998: Iraq announces it is suspending all cooperation with international arms inspectors and would close down their long-term monitoring operations
1999: EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed off the Massachusetts coast, killing all 217 people aboard.
2001: A 61-year-old New York hospital worker died from inhalation anthrax.
2001: Microsoft and the Justice Department reached a tentative agreement to settle the historic antitrust case against the software giant.
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BORN ON THIS DAY – October 31
1632: Jan Vermeer, painter
1795: John Keats, romantic poet
1887: Chiang Kai-shek, Pres. of Nationalist China
1896: Ethel Waters, actress
1912: Dale Evans, cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show)
1920: Dick Francis, jockey/novelist
1930: Michael Collins, Mjr General USAF/astronaut
1931: Dan Rather, TV news anchor
1937: Michael Landon, actor
1937: Tom Paxton, folk singer/songwriter
1942: David Ogden Stiers, actor
1944: Kinky Friedman, country rocker
1950: John Candy, comedic actor
1954: Ken Wahl, actor
1961: Larry Mullen Jr, drummer (U2)
1964: Rob Schneider, comedic actor
1968: Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle), rapper
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DIED ON THIS DAY – October 31
1918: Count Stephen Tisza Hungarian PM assassinated by soldiers
1926: Erich Weiss better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in Detroit
1964: Theodore C Freeman astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash
1975: Joseph Calleia actor (Jungle Book, Gilda), dies at 78
1983: George Halas NFLer, dies at 88
1984: Indira Gandhi PM of India assassinated by 2 of her Sikh bodyguards
1987: Joseph Campbell mythologist (Mythic Image), dies at 83
1988: John Houseman actor, dies of spinal cancer at 86
1991: Joseph Papp Broadway producer (Chorus Line), dies of cancer at 70
1993: Actor River Phoenix dies of a drug overdose in Los Angeles at age 23
2006: P.W. Botha, South Africa’s apartheid-era president, died at age 90
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