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June 8, 2009 9:12 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays |
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Name Your Poison Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Ai kakale: Poi cocktail PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Drinkim: To drink HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Alcohol- the liquid that snatches away the light.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.” (Fran Leibowitz)
June 8th, 1909: More than nine years before Prohibition hits the mainland U.S., Lanai outlaws alcoholic beverages. Today is the last day to legally imbibe. Beginning tomorrow, the law states, one can’t so much as travel to the island drunk. “Arriving on the island in a state of intoxication, [the fine is] five dollars, payable on the spot, or taken out in hide.”
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — June 8th
- 452: Attila the Hun invades Italy
- 632: The prophet Mohammed dies
- 1786: The first commercially-made ice cream is sold (NY)
- 1953: The U.S. Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington DC
- 1965: U.S. troops are ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam by President Johnson
- 1968: James Earl Ray is captured in London (assassin of Martin Luther King Jr)
- 1979: The Source, the first computer public information service, goes online
- 1986: Nazi Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria
- 1998: Charlton Heston is elected president of the National Rifle Association
- 2001: British Prime Minister Tony Blair iss elected to a second term in a landslide
BORN ON THIS DAY — June 8th
- 570: Mohammed, prophet of Islam
- 1810: Robert Schumann, composer
- 1867: Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
- 1929: Jerry Stiller, comedian/actor
- 1933: Joan Rivers, comedian
- 1958: Keenen Ivory Wayans, comedian
- 1962: Nick Rhodes, rock musician
- 1965: Robert Platus, rock musician
- 1967: Julianna Margulies, actress
- 1970: Kelli Williams, actress
- 1976: Lindsay Davenport, tennis player
- 1981: Sara Watkins, country musician
DIED ON THIS DAY — June 8th
- 218: Macrinus, Roman Emperor (b. 165)632: Muhammad, Prophet of Islam (b. 570)
- 1809: Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer (b. 1737)
- 1845: Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
- 1874: Cochise, Apache leader
- 1876: George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
- 1889: Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet(b. 1844)
- 1970: Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
- 1982: Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
