Chinese Lunar New Year
January 26, 2009 7:43 am > MAUI TODAY Chinese Lunar New Year |
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Lolo uila: Computer PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Komputa: Computer HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “They come together in the gray smoke.” HAOLE SAYIG OF THE DAY — “You only grow when you are alone.”- Paul Newman
YEAR OF THE OX: According to legend, in ancient times, Buddha asked all the animals to meet him on Chinese New Year. Twelve came, and Buddha named a year after each one. He announced that the people born in each animal’s year would have some of that animal’s personality traits. Those born in Ox years tend to be stable, fearless, obstinate, hard-working and friendly. Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, Walt Disney, Anthony Hopkins, George Clooney and Barack Obama were all born in the Year of the Ox.
Chinese Lunar New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month (the new moon), in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th day, called Lantern Festival.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — January 26th
- 1531: An earthquake in Lisbon kills 30,000 people
- 1784: Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over the eagle as America’s symbol
- 1787: Daniel Shays & followers attack arsenal at Springfield, Mass
- 1788: Capt Arthur Phillip lands in Sydney Aust to start a penal colony
- 1838: Tennessee becomes first state to prohibit alcohol
- 1841: Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
- 1871: American income tax repealed. Would that it had lasted!
- 1926: Television first demonstrated (J.L. Baird, London)
- 1954: Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
- 1989: AT&T reports first loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
- 1989: Madison Sq Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan
- 1989: U.S. computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
- 2001: An earthquake hit the Indian subcontinent, killing more than 13,000 people.
- 2005″ Condoleezza Rice was sworn in as secretary of state.
BORN ON THIS DAY — January 26th
- 1880: Douglas MacArthur, general
- 1884: Roy Chapman Andrews, scientist/explorer
- 1912: Cora Baird, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
- 1925: Paul Newman, racer/actor
- 1928: Eartha Kitt, singer/actress
- 1929: Jules Feiffer, cartoonist
- 1935: Bob Ueker, actor/sportsdcaster
- 1942: Scott Glenn, actor
- 1946: Gene Siskel, movie critic
- 1949: David Straitham, actor
- 1957: Eddie Van Halen, rock guitarist
- 1958: Anita Baker, singer
- 1958: Ellen DeGeneress, actress
- 1961: Wayne Gretzky, hockey hall-of-famer
DIED ON THIS DAY — January 26th
- 1949: Victor Fleming director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65
- 1962: Charles “Lucky” Luciano New York City NY Mafia gangster, dies at 65
- 1979: Nelson Rockefeller former Vice President & 4 time Governor of NY, dies at 70
- 1983: Paul “Bear” Bryant college football coach, dies in Alabama at 69
- 1992: José Ferrer Puerto Rico, actor/director (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 80
