Obamas Continue Hawaii Vacation
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kokoleka: Chocolate PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Soket: Chocolate HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “When the bait is bad, fish will not gather to eat it.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Money can’t buy everything. For example: poverty.” - Nelson Algren
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
How Safe was Obama Family During Oahu Vacation Blackout?
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY
- 1065: Westminster Abbey is consecrated
- 1850: Rangoon Burma is destroyed by fire
- 1869: William Finley Semple is granted a patent for chewing gum
- 1902: The trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to the mainland U.S.
- 1905: The Intercollegiate Athletic Association is founded (becomes the NCAA)
- 1926: Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
- 1935: The WPA’s Federal Art Project Gallery opens in New York City
- 1937: The Republic of Ireland replaces the Irish Free State as a sovereign nation
- 1945: The U.S. Congress officially recognizes the “Pledge of Allegiance”
- 1973: Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes “Gulag Archipelago”
- 1981: The first American “test-tube baby” is born (Elizabeth Jordan Carr)
- 2000: The Census Bureau releases its first numbers from the 2000 national count, revealing that America’s population has risen to 281,421,906, up 13.2 percent from 1990
BORN ON THIS DAY
- 1856: Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President/Nobel Laureate
- 1882: Arthur Eddington, astrophysicist/cosmologist/mathematician
- 1902: Mortimer J Adler, author (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
- 1905: Earl “Fatha” Hines, jazz pianist
- 1908: Lew Ayres, actor
- 1909: Billy Williams, singer
- 1911: Sam Levenson, humorist
- 1934: Maggie Smith, actress
- 1946: Edgar Winter, rock musician
- 1947: Richard Diamonde, rock musician
- 1950: Alex Chilton, rock musician
- 1954: Denzel Washington, actor
- 1954: Rosie Vela, British singer
- 1956: Kenneth Grant, bass/vocalist
- 1956: Michael Gibbons, rock musician
- 1978: John Legend, R&B singer
- 1981 Sienna Miller. actress
- 1981: Elizabeth Jordan Carr, 1st American test tube baby
- 1987: Thomas Dekker, actor
- 1989: Mackenzie Rosman, actress
DIED ON THIS DAY
- 1937: Maurice J Ravel Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62
- 1938: Florence Lawrence silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48
- 1945: Theodore Dreiser novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74
- 1976: Freddie King rocker, dies at 42
- 1983: Dennis Wilson drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39
- 1984: Sam Peckinpah director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59
- 1997: George Fleming cyclist, dies at 80
- 1997 James Lees-Milne architecural historian, dies at 89
- 1997 Ronald Clive Williams actor/comedian, dies at 68 97
