Day of the Dead – 3 Left
November 1, 2008 6:47 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays |
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Authors’ Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Make: Dead, death PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Daiman: Dead person HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Life is in the mouth; death is in the mouth.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Death is nature’s way of telling us to slow down” – Anon WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — The Daily Beast - Tina Brown’s latest WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Hockey Momma for Obama NETCAST OF THE WEEK — 23/6 – “Some of the News Most of the Time” GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — FactCheck.org
ISLAND NEWS ARCHIVES – November 1, 1898: Work proceeds apace to electrify certain buildings on Oahu, Maui and the Big Island. Today, the superintendent of the Department of Government Electric Light Works announces a plan to put all new electric lines from this point forward underground.
The superintendent expresses his concern that above ground electric lines pose a risk of fire and adverse public health, as well as accident.
What happened? Today we have more poles than ever, many horrendously tall, and planted right next to rotting poles. Common sense and good government bites the dust more than a century ago, just as it does today.
The Hawaii Superferry’s $350,000 in campaign contributions and lobbying appear to have been well spent. As soon as Lingle signs the bill, the Superferry can sail – unless perhaps enviromental groups are successful in challenging the constitituionality of this special law.
79: Pompeii is buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
1512: Michelangelo’s 5,808-square-foot masterpiece on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is first exhibited to the public
1604: William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello” is first presented
1765: The Stamp Act goes into effect in the British colonies
1776: The Mission at San Juan Capistrano is founded in California
1800: The first U.S. president takes up residence in the White House (John Adams)
1870: The U.S. Weather Bureau begins operations by making its first meteorological observations, using reports gathered by telegraph from 24 locations
1922: The Ottoman Empire is abolished
1939: The first animal conceived by artificial insemination is publicly displayed (a rabbit)
1973: Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appoints Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor
1995: Bosnia peace talks begin in Dayton Ohio between the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia
1500: Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/writer
1871: Stephen Crane, novelist/poet
1929: Betsy Palmer, actress
1935: Gary Player, PGA golfer
1941: Robert Foxworth, actor
1942: Larry Flynt, magazine publisher
1963: Rick Allen, rocker (Def Leppard-Hysteria)
1972: Jenny McCarthy, actress
1972: David Berman, actor (“CSI”)
1975: Bo Bice, rock singer (“American Idol”)
DIED ON THIS DAY – November 1
1963: Elsa Maxwell writer (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80
1963: Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese PM, assassinated in a military coup
1979: Former first lady Mamie Eisenhower died in Washington, D.C., at age 82.
1984: Norman Krasna writer/director, dies of a heart attack at 74
1985: Phil Silvers comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), dies at 73 in his sleep
1994: Noah Beery Jr in California, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot), dies at 81
1999: Football Hall of Famer Walter Payton died of cancer at age 45.
2007: Retired Air Force Brigadier Gen. Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, died at age 92 with no regrets
