Last Words for 2008
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Olelo: Word PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Tok: Word HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Life is in the word, death is in the word.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” - Rudyard Kipling
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
Erin Cure photo
December 30, 1956, January 4 1974, and lots of other dates, too: State officials on Oahu call for a ban on fireworks for the entire state. In 1956, there were more than 110 injuries from fireworks, most of them inflicted on children. Fireworks are on sale big-time at Wal-Mart, Long’s and Costco today, anyway.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY
1813: The first coffee is planted in Hawaii
1906: Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
1922: USSR established
1924: Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galactic systems
1952: Tuskegee Institue reports 1952 is the first year in 71 years with no lynchings anywhere in the U.S.
1972: President Nixon halts the bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
1988: President Reagan and President-elect Bush are subpoenaed to testify as defense witnesses in the pending Iran-Contra trial of Oliver North (the subpoenas were later quashed)
1999: Former Beatle George Harrison fights off a knife-wielding intruder who breaks into his mansion west of London and stabs Harrison in the chest
2003: The federal government bans the sale of herbal stimulant ephedra
2006: Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is hanged.
2007: Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of a rigged election
BORN ON THIS DAY
1865: Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din-Nobel ‘07)
1867: Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist (died aboard the Titanic)
1879: Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher/yogi
1928: Bo Diddley, (Ellas Bates) (Hawaii 5-0, God’s Little Acre)
1932: John Hillerman, actor (Magnum PI, Blazing Saddles, Audrey Rose)
1945: Davy Jones, singer (Monkees)
1951: Meredith Vieiera, TV hostesess
1957: Matt Lauer, TV host (“Today”)
1959: Tracey Ullman, Actress/comediann
1961: Sean Hannit, TV host (“Hannity & Colmes”)
1975: Tiger Woods, PGA golfer
1984: LeBron James, NBA player
DIED ON THIS DAY
1944: Romain Roland French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78
1966: Christian A Herter US Minister of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71
1979: Richard Rodgers composer (Rogers & Hammerstein), dies at 77
1992: Ling-Ling 1st panda China gave US, dies at 23
1993: [Irving Paul] “Swifty” Lazar superagent, dies of kidney failure at 86
1993: Mack David US songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81
1994: Lloyd James Austin french Scholar, dies at 79
1996: Jack Nance actor (Meatballs 4, Whore, Voodoo), murdered at 53
1996: Lew Ayres screen actor
