A Sweet Beginning
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Fritters Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Makana: Gift PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY —K’Den: Agreed HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — E ho’a’o no i pau kuhihewa – “Try to end the panic.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of putting it into practice.” - Otto von Bismark WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Democracy Now! WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Barack Obama is Irish NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Left Wing Conspiracy GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Media Matters
December 2, 1802: The first sugar mill, made of a stone mill and a boiler, is brought to Maui by John White, a man who had spent most of his life in China. White originally came to Maui to trade sandlewood, and built the mill as an after thought.In the 1700s, native Hawaiians planted sugar cane on the banks of taro patches as a part of their food supply.The Hawaiian, Historical Society reports that as an itinerant sugar maker, the sugar miller set up his works, ground cane, made sugar from the juice, and divided the products, sugar and molasses, equally with the suppliers of cane.The Hawaiian sugar industry expanded to become the dominant segment of the Hawaiian economy by the time of the Civil War in the United States, and was number one industry until supplanted by the tourist industry in the 1960s.Pictured: A sugar mill circa the Civil War times.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY1697 St Paul’s Cathedral opens in London
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte crowned 1st emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII
1805 Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
1812 James Madison re-elected President of US, Elbridge Gerry Vice-President
1887 Charles Dickens’ 1st public reading in US (New York NY)
1907 Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 to retain the heavyweight boxing title
1907 English Professional Football Player’s Association forms
1908 Pu Yi (Hsuan-T’ung) became China’s Last Emperor at age 3
1913 Archdiocese of Managua created
1913 Government-Barthou falls due to overtime conscription
1914 Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia
1916 Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract
1917 Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea
1922 10th CFL Grey Cup: Queen’s University defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 13-1
1924 British-German trade agreement signed
1927 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
1928 Cardinals 1B Jim Bottomley is voted National League MVP
1929 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
1932 “Adventures of Charlie Chan” 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network
1933 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)
1933 Fred Astaire’s 1st film, “Dancing Lady” is released
1944 General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
1944 German troops seize Betuwse dikes
1944 US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar
1947 13th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Lujack, Notre Dame (QB)
1948 Stan Musial is picked National League MVP
1950 Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O’Sullivan 14 times in a title fight
1951 Philadelphia sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing
1951 “Borscht Capades” closes at Royale Theater NYC after 90 performances
1952 18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB)
1952 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver CO)
1954 Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws
1954 US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Senator-R-WI) for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute”
1954 “Hit the Trail” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
1956 Fidel Castro lands with “Granma” on coast of Cuba
1957 1st US full-scale atomic electric power plant-power generated, Shippingport PA
1957 Sam Cooke’s “You Send Me” reaches #1
1958 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
1958 24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB)
1958 KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte NE (NBC) begins broadcasting
1959 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
1961 1st OT Grey Cup game (Winnipeg 21, Hamilton 14)
1961 Fidel Castro declares he’s a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
1961 Wind Bell, journal of San Francisco Zen Center, begins publishing
1962 50th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg beats Hamilton, 28-27 at Toronto [OT]
1963 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km
1963 Major League Rules Committee bans oversized catcher’s mitts, effective in 1965
1964 Ringo Starr’s tonsils are removed
1966 Love, Moby Grape & Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
1967 55th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 24-1
1968 President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
1969 “Buck White” opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 7 performances
1969 Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle WA to New York NY)
1970 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Director: William Ruckelshaus)
1970 Tippetts Opera “Knot Garden” premieres in London
1971 Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form the United Arab Emirates
1971 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
1971 Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes President of UAE
1972 “December Giant” largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
1972 In one of their worst trades Yankees get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
1972 “Via Galactica” closes at Uris Theater NYC after 7 performances
1972 60th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 13-10
1973 62nd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (5-0)
1973 US Air Arena opens in Landover MD, Bullets beat Seattle, 98-96
1974 Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
1974 Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs
1974 Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champion
1975 Laos falls to communist forces; King Sisavang Vatthana resigns, Lao People’s Democratic Republic proclaimed
1975 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed
1975 G S Chappell gets ton in each inning of 1st Test Cricket as captain vs West Indies
1978 Chanting “Allah is great”, anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran
1978 Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand’s “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” hits #1
1979 Foots Walker becomes the 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score a triple-double
1979 Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
1981 Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco opens at 11:30 AM
1981 Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) wins National League Rookie of the Year
1981 Spanish government requests membership in NATO
1982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart
1984 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win
1984 Bob Holland takes 9-83 for New South Wales against South Australia, SCG
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 Philipine Chief staff General Fabian speaks of B Aquino’s murder
1985 Rupert Holmes’ musical “Mystery of Edwin Drood” premieres at Imperial Theater NYC for 608 performances
1986 Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57
1987 Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
1987 “334″ club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20″ of snow to attend New Jersey Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands
1987 Jennifer Steele, 17, of Colorado becomes Miss Teen America
1987 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 “Naked Gun” premieres, a movie based on TV’s “Police Squad”
1988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
1988 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
1988 UN votes 151-2 (Israel & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Britain abstains
1989 KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
1989 55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB)
1989 Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as President of India
1990 1st parliamentary election in newly reunified Germany
1990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
1990 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St Petersburg (3-2)
1990 Beth Daniel/Davis Love win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1991 Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with the New York Mets
1991 Muslim Shites release American held hostage in Lebanon (Joseph Cicippio)
1992 WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in New York NY
1993 A Websters musical “Sunset Promenade” premieres in Los Angeles
1993 Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11
1993 Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start
1993 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches
1994 “Cobb” premieres
1994 Achille Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia
1994 Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to the hospital for ulcer treatment
1994 Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
1995 17th ACE Cable Awards
1997 MCI Center opens in Washington DC, Wizards vs SuperSonics
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte crowned 1st emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII
1805 Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
1812 James Madison re-elected President of US, Elbridge Gerry Vice-President
1887 Charles Dickens’ 1st public reading in US (New York NY)
1907 Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 to retain the heavyweight boxing title
1907 English Professional Football Player’s Association forms
1908 Pu Yi (Hsuan-T’ung) became China’s Last Emperor at age 3
1913 Archdiocese of Managua created
1913 Government-Barthou falls due to overtime conscription
1914 Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia
1916 Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract
1917 Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea
1922 10th CFL Grey Cup: Queen’s University defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 13-1
1924 British-German trade agreement signed
1927 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
1928 Cardinals 1B Jim Bottomley is voted National League MVP
1929 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
1932 “Adventures of Charlie Chan” 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network
1933 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)
1933 Fred Astaire’s 1st film, “Dancing Lady” is released
1944 General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
1944 German troops seize Betuwse dikes
1944 US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar
1947 13th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Lujack, Notre Dame (QB)
1948 Stan Musial is picked National League MVP
1950 Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O’Sullivan 14 times in a title fight
1951 Philadelphia sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing
1951 “Borscht Capades” closes at Royale Theater NYC after 90 performances
1952 18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB)
1952 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver CO)
1954 Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws
1954 US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Senator-R-WI) for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute”
1954 “Hit the Trail” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
1956 Fidel Castro lands with “Granma” on coast of Cuba
1957 1st US full-scale atomic electric power plant-power generated, Shippingport PA
1957 Sam Cooke’s “You Send Me” reaches #1
1958 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
1958 24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB)
1958 KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte NE (NBC) begins broadcasting
1959 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
1961 1st OT Grey Cup game (Winnipeg 21, Hamilton 14)
1961 Fidel Castro declares he’s a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
1961 Wind Bell, journal of San Francisco Zen Center, begins publishing
1962 50th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg beats Hamilton, 28-27 at Toronto [OT]
1963 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km
1963 Major League Rules Committee bans oversized catcher’s mitts, effective in 1965
1964 Ringo Starr’s tonsils are removed
1966 Love, Moby Grape & Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
1967 55th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 24-1
1968 President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
1969 “Buck White” opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 7 performances
1969 Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle WA to New York NY)
1970 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Director: William Ruckelshaus)
1970 Tippetts Opera “Knot Garden” premieres in London
1971 Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form the United Arab Emirates
1971 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
1971 Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes President of UAE
1972 “December Giant” largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
1972 In one of their worst trades Yankees get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
1972 “Via Galactica” closes at Uris Theater NYC after 7 performances
1972 60th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 13-10
1973 62nd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (5-0)
1973 US Air Arena opens in Landover MD, Bullets beat Seattle, 98-96
1974 Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
1974 Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs
1974 Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champion
1975 Laos falls to communist forces; King Sisavang Vatthana resigns, Lao People’s Democratic Republic proclaimed
1975 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed
1975 G S Chappell gets ton in each inning of 1st Test Cricket as captain vs West Indies
1978 Chanting “Allah is great”, anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran
1978 Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand’s “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” hits #1
1979 Foots Walker becomes the 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score a triple-double
1979 Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
1981 Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco opens at 11:30 AM
1981 Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) wins National League Rookie of the Year
1981 Spanish government requests membership in NATO
1982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart
1984 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win
1984 Bob Holland takes 9-83 for New South Wales against South Australia, SCG
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 Philipine Chief staff General Fabian speaks of B Aquino’s murder
1985 Rupert Holmes’ musical “Mystery of Edwin Drood” premieres at Imperial Theater NYC for 608 performances
1986 Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57
1987 Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
1987 “334″ club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20″ of snow to attend New Jersey Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands
1987 Jennifer Steele, 17, of Colorado becomes Miss Teen America
1987 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 “Naked Gun” premieres, a movie based on TV’s “Police Squad”
1988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
1988 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
1988 UN votes 151-2 (Israel & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Britain abstains
1989 KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
1989 55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB)
1989 Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as President of India
1990 1st parliamentary election in newly reunified Germany
1990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
1990 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St Petersburg (3-2)
1990 Beth Daniel/Davis Love win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1991 Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with the New York Mets
1991 Muslim Shites release American held hostage in Lebanon (Joseph Cicippio)
1992 WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in New York NY
1993 A Websters musical “Sunset Promenade” premieres in Los Angeles
1993 Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11
1993 Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start
1993 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches
1994 “Cobb” premieres
1994 Achille Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia
1994 Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to the hospital for ulcer treatment
1994 Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
1995 17th ACE Cable Awards
1997 MCI Center opens in Washington DC, Wizards vs SuperSonics
BORN ON THIS DAY
1981 Britney Jean Spears Kentwood, LA, singer (Baby One More Time, You Drive Me Crazy, Oops I Did It Again)
DIED ON THIS DAY
1814 Marquis de Sade writer, dies at 74
1935 Albert Kessel first to die in California gas chamber
1957 Harrison Ford silent screen actor (Rubber Tires), dies at 73
1986 Desi Arnaz actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies of lung cancer at 69
1995 [William] Robertson Davies novelist essayist/dramatist
1935 Albert Kessel first to die in California gas chamber
1957 Harrison Ford silent screen actor (Rubber Tires), dies at 73
1986 Desi Arnaz actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies of lung cancer at 69
1995 [William] Robertson Davies novelist essayist/dramatist
