Fathers Day 2009
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Sunny: La PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Tulait: Very bright HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Unsavory is the soup made of little chickens.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Men trust their ears less than their eyes.” (Herodocuts)
TODAY IS FATHER’S DAY – Sonora Dodd first proposed the idea of a “father’s day” to honor her father, William Smart, a Civil War veteran, who was widowed when his wife died giving birth to their 6th child. After Sonora became an adult and married, she sought to honor her father for the selflessness he had shown in raising his 6 children as a single parent on a rural farm in eastern Washington state. She held the first Father’s Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910, her father William Smart’s birthday. President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924, supported the idea of a national Father’s Day. In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father’s Day. President Richard Nixon signed the law making it permanent in 1972.
June 21st, 1998: The “Big Mo,” the USS Missouri, the famed World War II battleship noted most, perhaps, for being the deck on which Japan’s formal surrender was signed by the Japanese government, comes to Hawaii to rest. While it passes Kalaupapa, the peninsula on which the Hanson’s Disease (leprosy) sufferers reside, the ship stops, and dips its flag in salute.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY – June 21st
- 1633: Galileo Galilei is forced by the Inquisition to “abjure, curse, and detest” his Copernican heliocentric views (never rescinded)
- 1684: Massachusetts Bay Colony’s charter is revoked
- 1768: First U.S. Bachelor of Medicine degree is bestowed on Dr. John Archer
- 1788: The U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire becomes the 9th state to ratify it
- 1917: The Hawaiian Red Cross is founded
- 1945: Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to the U.S. during WW II
- 1948: First stored computer program is run, on the Manchester Mark I (England) (Frank Turing made the machine)
- 1964: Three civil rights workers (Michael H Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney) disappear after release from a Mississippi jail (3 days later, their burnt-out car was found; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later; eight members of the Ku Klux Klan went to prison on federal conspiracy charges; none served more than six years)
- 1977: Former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman enters prison
- 1985 Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
- 1989: The Supreme Court rules that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.
- 2005: Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, iss found guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., 41 years to the day earlier. (He is serving a 60-year prison sentence.
BORN ON THIS DAY – June 21st
- 1732: Martha Washington, the first first lady
- 1892: Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian
- 1903: Al Hirschfeld, cartoonist
- 1905: Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher/Nobel writer
- 1912: Mary McCarthy, novelist
- 1922: Judy Holliday, comedienne/actress
- 1925: Maureen Stapleton, actress
- 1927: Carl Stokes, (Cleve-Mayor)
- 1931: Margaret Heckler, U.S. Secy of Health & Human Services
- 1931: Olympia Dukakis, actress
- 1944: Ray Davies, singer/guitarist
- 1947: Meredith Baxter, actress
- 1965: Larry Wachowski, filmmaker
- 1982: Prince William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor of Wales
DIED ON THIS DAY – June 21st
- 1377: King Edward III of England (b. 1312)
- 1529: John Skelton, English poet
- 1547: Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
- 1874: Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
- 1893: Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University (b. 1824)
- 1952: Wilfrid ‘Wop’ May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
- 1964: Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
- 2001: John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
- 2001: Carroll O’Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2003: Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
