Pearl Harbor Day Day 341 of 2008 25 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pu’ewa: Surprise
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY —Kirap Nogud: Surprised
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — Be a person well versed.
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” - Barry LePatner

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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

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On this anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we recommend you taking a look at a new perspective on the world leading up to that day: “Human Smoke”, by Nicholson Baker.

0036  -BC- Earliest known Mayan inscription, Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo
0043 -BC- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman writer, gets his head & right hand chopped off by Mark Antony’s soldiers
0185 Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52?)
1787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
1808 James Madison elected US President,George Clinton Vice-President
1836 Martin Van Buren elected 8th President
1842 New York Philharmonic’s 1st concert
1868 Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin MO, kills 1
1872 HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½-year world oceanographic cruise
1877 Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1891 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
1917 US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1926 Gas refrigerator patented
1939 Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame
1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
1941 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
1945 Microwave oven patented
1949 Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1953 Israel’s PM Ben-Gureon retires
1964 George Harrison changes his company’s name from Mornyork to Harrisongs
1965 Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of the 2 churches in 1054
1972 Philippine 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
1972 Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission (last of Apollo Moon series), launched
1973 Wings release “Band on the Run”
1981 Spain becomes a member of the NATO
1987 Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank
1990 Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
1995 US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
1996 Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands

1542 Mary Stuart Queen of Scots (1560-1587)
1761 Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud created wax museum
1873 Willa Cather US, author (My Antonia)
1915 Eli Wallach Brooklyn NY, actor (Magnificent 7, Misfits, People Next Door)
1917 Helen Gurley Brown editor-in-chief (Cosmopolitan)
1928 Noam Chomsky linguist (founded transformational grammar)
1932 Ellen Burstyn Detroit MI, actress (Exorcist, Alice Doesn’t Live Here)
1942 Harry Chapin New York NY, folk/rock singer/songwriter (Taxi, Cat’s in the Craddle)
1942 Jonathan D Kramer composer
1947 Johnny Bench baseball catcher (Reds)
1947 Vincent Baggetta Paterson NJ, actor (Lou-Chicago Story)
1949 Tom Waits California, rocker/song writer (Blue Valentine)
1951 Henk Temming Dutch vocalist/keyboardist (Good Cause)
1953 Bertin Osborne Italian entertainer
1956 Larry Bird hoop star (Boston Celtics)
1957 Geoff “Henry” Lawson cricketer (Australian fast bowler 1980-89)
1957 Rohan Jayasekera cricketer (one Test Sri Lanka vs Pakistan 1982)
1958 Edd Hall TV announcer (Jay Leno’s Tonight Show)
1959 Salim Yousuf cricketer (Pakistani wicket-keeper in 32 Tests 1986-90)
1961 Mary Beth Evans Pasadena CA, actress (Katherine Ashton-General Hospital)
1962 Grecia Colmenares Italian entertainer
1963 Barbara Weathers vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1968 Ricky Ervins NFL running back (San Francisco 49ers)
1968 Tom Myslinski NFL guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1969 Sabine Hack West Germany, tennis star
1970 Courtney Browne cricketer (West Indies Test wicket-keeper 1995)
1970 Ed Robinson WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 Rob Olson Victoria British Columbia, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Newlands Open)
1973 Rea Marie Bavilla Miss USA-Alaska (1997)
1973 Terrell Owens wide receiver (San Francisco 49ers)

1912 George Darwin theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies
1970 Rube Goldberg US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87
1990 Joan Bennett US actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80
1992 Maurice Coutinho writer/translator (Silent Struggle), dies at 79
1992 Ruth Corbett Thom dies after long illness at 78
1992 Vincent Gardenia actor (Moonstruck, LA Law), dies at 71
1995 Tom Burns editor, dies at 89
1996 Eugene Izzi mystery writer, hangs himself at 43
1996 Jose Donoso writer, dies at 72