Maui Math – 3.14
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Int’l PI Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kahawai: Stream PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Wara: Water HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Tiu didn’t tell me there wasn’t any water below.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.” – Edward Abbey
March 14th, 2008: Four West Maui Streams Na Wai Eha are “Designated.” For the first time ever, the state Commission on Water Resource Management voted unanimously to designated a surface water system — the four West Maui streams (Iao Stream among them) called Na Wai Eha. Users of Na Wai Eha water, including commercial ones now sucking the streams dry, will have one year to apply to the commission for continued use. Read more …
March 14, 1911: The 5th Horse of the Apocalypze Arrives. Not much to report in history on this date. Oh, one small thing. Someone in 1911 had the bright idea of opening a tourist agency on Fort St. on Oahu, to help people with deciding to come to Hawaii and what to do. Bastards….
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — March 14th
- 1493: The first letter describing America is mailed
- 1794: Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton
- 1812: Congress authorizes war bonds to finance the War of 1812
- 1870: The California legislature approves an act making Golden Gate Park possible
- 1900: U.S. currency goes onto the gold standard
- 1903: The first national bird reserve is established in Sebastian, Florida
- 1933: Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
- 1948: The Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
- 1964: A Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of Lee Harvey Oswald’s murder
- 1967: JFK’s body is moved from its temporary grave site to a permanent memorial
- 2002: The US government charged the Arthur Andersen accounting firm with obstruction of justice, securing its first indictment in the collapse of Enron.
- 2005 :A judge in San Francisco ruled that California’s ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional.
BORN ON THIS DAY — March 14th
- 1782: Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. representative
- 1833: Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first U.S. female dentist
- 1864: Casey Jones, famed engineer
- 1879: Albert Einstein, Nobel physicist
- 1912: Les Brown, orchestra leader
- 1920: Hank Ketcham, cartoonist
- 1922: Colin Fletcher, author
- 1922: Les Baxter, singer/orchestra leader
- 1928: Frank Borman, astronaut
- 1933: Michael Caine, actor
- 1933: Quincy Jones, composer/singer
- 1934: Eugene A Cernan, astronaut
- 1947: Billy Crystal, comedian/actor
- 1982: Kate Maberly, actress
DIED ON THIS DAY — March 14th
- 1471: Sir Thomas Malory, English author (b. 1405)
- 1883: Karl Marx, German philosopher and political theorist (b. 1818)
- 1932: George Eastman, American inventor, and founder of Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
- 1973: Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
- 1975: Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
- 1976: Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
- 1977: Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
- 1983: Maurice Ronet, French film actor (b. 1927)
- 1989: Edward Abbey, American author and environmental activist (b. 1927)
