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 Teacher’s Day
Day 157 of 2009
208 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Kalaikaiaola: Ecology
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY—
Kamapim: Develop
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The dust rises on the whirlwind.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” (FDR)
WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK —
Medical Marijuana ProCon | Industrial Hemp
NORML National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws)
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK —
The Magic Weed: History of Marijuana
NETCAST OF THE WEEK —
Marijuana Policy Project
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK —
Good Deed Foundation
TODAY: On the 65th anniversary of D-Day, President Barack Obama in Normandy spoke at the American Cemetery on cliffs overlooking Omaha Beach and other landings sites where American, British and Canadian soldiers perished while establishing a beachhead. Read More >
EVENTS ON THIS DAY – June 6th
1844: The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London
1932: The U.S. Federal gas tax is enacted
1933: The first drive-in theater opens (in Camden New Jersey)
1944: D-DAY – Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, FRA
1967: The “Six Day War” begins between Israel and its Arab neighbors
1977: The U.S. Supreme Court tosses out state automatic death penalty laws
1988: George Bush I makes a campaign promise to support reparations for WW II Japanese-American internees (promise broken as of May 1989)
1985: Authorities in Brazil exhume a body later identified as that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz
1989: Burial services were held for Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
2005: The Supreme Court rules 6-to-3 that people who smoke marijuana because their doctors recommend it to ease pain can be prosecuted for violating federal drug laws.
BORN ON THIS DAY – June 6th
1755: Nathan Hale, hanged patriot
1875: Thomas Mann, novelist
1935: Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet’s Lamaistic Buddhists
1949: Richard Lewis, comedian/acto
1951: Dwight Twilley, country singer
1955: Sandra Bernhard, comedian/actress
1956: Bjorn Borg, tennis champ
1968: Paul Giamatti, actor
1973: Natalie Morales, broadcast journalist
1976: Lukas Hass, actor
DIED ON THIS DAY – June 6th
1799: Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)
1832: Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
1891: John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
1941: Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
1968: Robert F. Kennedy, 64th United States Attorney General & former U.S. Senator from New York (b. 1925)
1968: Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
1976: J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892)
1991: Stan Getz, American musician (b. 1927)
2005: Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
2006: Billy Preston, American musician (b. 1946)
2006: Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican jazz pianist (b. 1952)
2006: Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
