Obama’s 1st Day
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National Hugging Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Moe‘uhane: Dream PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Nait: Night HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “It is a revelation of the night.” HAOLE WORD OF THE DAY — “I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.“ – Barack Obama
On January 20, 1881, King Kalakaua named Princess Liliuokalani as the Hawaiian Regent in his absence, as he boarded a boat to travel the world. No one knew, of course, that he would never return, as he died in San Francisco exactly 10 years later, January 20, 1891. No one in Hawaii knew the King had died until his body arrived by boat on January 28. One wonders if the illegal overthrown of the monarchy just two years later would have succeeded if the King was still around.On this date in 1898, the Pali Road connecting Honolulu with Windward Oahu was finished.
Also on this date in 1900, the fire set in Chinatown to rid Oahu of Bubonic plague (reported earlier in the Maui Almanac) finally burns itself out, with nearly all of Chinatown destroyed. The plague returned to Hawaii in three years anyway.
