Hawaii’s 1st Library
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Peanut Butter Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pipi Kane: Bull PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Kau: Cattle HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “My heart sees what the eye cannot..” HAOLE QUOTE OF THE DAY — “I think if there’s a great depression there might be some hope.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
March 1, 1917: H.A.Baldwin and “F.F.” (nope we don’t know who the heck this could be. If you do, let us know) buy the island of Lanai for $588,000, or using the CPI to calculate, $9.2 million in 2008 dollars. We think they got a deal.They wanted Lanai to grow cattle. It didn’t really work out, and by 1920 they began to grow pineapple. That didn’t work out either, as pineapple isn’t grown there today. Now they want to grow resorts. Let’s hope it’s a trifecta.
March 1, 1879: The Library of Hawaii is founded. The Friends of the Library of Hawaii was founded in a building on Fort Street by Honolulu’s business leaders, merchants,and Hawaiian royalty as the Honolulu Library and Reading Room. Members of the original organization included King Kalakaua, Queen Kapiolani, Queen Emma, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Sanford B. Dole and James Campbell.
ON THIS DAY — March 1st
- 1790: The first U.S. census is authorized by Congress
- 1867: Nebraska becomes the 37th state
- 1872: Congress authorizes the creation of Yellowstone National Park (the world’s first national park)
- 1932: 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell New Jersey (the remains of the baby are found and identified on May 12th)
- 1937: The first permanent automobile license plates are issued (Connecticut)
- 1947: The International Monetary Fund begins operations
- 1954: U.S. explodes a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
- 1969: Jim Morrison is arrested for exposing himself at the Dinner Key Auditorium
- 1974: The Watergate grand jury indicts seven Presidential aides in crimes associated with the “burglary” at the Democratic Party offices in Washington DC
- 2002: NASA reports that the Mars Odyssey spacecraft has found evidence of vast regions of water that may exist on the red planet
- 2002: The Archdiocese of Boston yields to pressure from prosecutors and agrees to turn over the names of people allegedly molested by priests
- 2003: Suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed iss captured by CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad
2005: A closely divided Supreme Court outlaws the death penalty for juvenile criminals
BORN ON THIS DAY — March 1st
- 1810: Frederic Chopin, composer/pianist
- 1880: Lytton Strachey, biographer/critic
- 1904: Glenn Miller, bandleader
- 1909: David Niven, actor
- 1917: Dinah Shore, singer/actress
- 1917: Robert Lowell, poet/pacifist
- 1919: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet
- 1920: Howard Nemerov, 3rd U.S. poet laureate/novelist
- 1921: Richard (Purdy) Wilbur, 2nd U.S. Poet Laureate
- 1922: Yitzak Rabin, premier (Israel)
- 1924: Donald “Deke” K Slayton, Major USAF/astronaut
- 1926: Pete Rozelle, NFL commissioner
- 1927: Harry Belafonte, Calypso singer
- 1934: Jim Ed Brown, country singer
- 1935: Robert Conrad, actor
- 1944: Mike D’Abo, rock vocalist
- 1944: Roger (Harry) Daltrey, actor/rocker/singer
- 1945: Burning Spear (Winston Rodney), Jamaican reggae singer
- 1947: Alan Thicke, actor
- 1953: Ron Howard, actor/director
- 1958: Nik Kershaw, singer/songwriter
DIED ON THIS DAY — March 1st
