Stoke the Fire Within
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ahi: Fire PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Paia: Fire HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Fire will never say that it has had enough.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “He knows who says: we do not know.” - Upanishads
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Think Green Hawaii WEB GAME OF THE WEEK — Sock & Awed – TRY IT! NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Slate’s Podcasts GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Maui Food Bank
December 27th, 1850: The Hawaiian Fire Department is established
Today thru December 30th: Maui Film Festival’s First Light Screenings
EVENTS ON THIS DAY
- 1825: The first public railroad using steam locomotion is completed in England
- 1831: Darwin begins his voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle
- 1845: Ether is first used as an anaesthetic in childbirth in the U.S.
- 1900: Prohibitionist Carry Nation carries out her first public smashing of a bar
- 1932: Radio City Music Hall first opens in New York City
- 1934: The first youth hostel opens in the U.S.
- 1947: The first “Howdy Doody Show” is telecast as “Puppet Playhouse” on NBC
- 1968: Apollo 8 returns to Earth after successfully orbiting the Moon
- 1979: Soviet troops invade Afghanistan
- 2001: U.S. officials announced that Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners would be held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- 2007: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a bomb and shooting attack as she left an election rally in Rawalpindi.
BORN ON THIS DAY
- 1571: Johann Kepler, astronomer
- 1773: George Cayley, found science of aerodynamics
- 1822: Louis Pasteur, bacteriologist
- 1879: Sydney Greenstreet, actor
- 1901: Marlene Dietrich, singer/actress
- 1906: Oscar Levant, actor
- 1931: Scotty Moore, guitarist (for Elvis)
- 1941: Leslie Maguire, rock musician
- 1941: Michael Pinder, rock musician
- 1944: Mick Jones, rock musician
- 1944: Tracy Nelson, singer/actress
- 1948: Gerard Depardieu, actor
- 1952: Karla Bonoff, rock singer
- 1956: Karen Hughes, press secretary
- 1962: Jeff Bryant, country musician
- 1969: Sarah Vowel, author
- 1972: Thomas Wilson Brown, actor
- 1973: Olu, R&B singer
- 1974: Masi Oka, actor (Heroes)
- 1975: Heather O’Rourke, actress
- 1981: Emilie de de Raivin, actress (Lost)
DIED ON THIS DAY
- 1981: Hoagy Carmichael US actor/songwriter (Stardust), dies at 82
- 1982: John Leonard Swigert Jr astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51
- 198:3 Walter Scott rocker, dies
- 1986: Cliff Burton bass player (Metallica), dies in a bus crash at 24
- 1986: Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson composer, dies at 78
- 1987: Rewi Alley New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist,
