Dog Day Afternoon
June 22, 2009 7:32 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays |
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Dog to Work DayHAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ilio: Dog
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Pusi: Cat HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The gift is sounded.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘nice doggy’ until you can find a rock.” (Will Rogers)
June 22, 1999: Hawaii-born general Eric Ken Shinseki (Lihue, Kauai) is the first Hawiian named as the U.S. Army Chief of Staff. Now a retired 4-star general, he is currently the Secretary of Veterans Affiars, appointed in 2009 by Hawaii-born president Barack Obama.
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June 22, 2003: The state of Hawaii finally relents and joins the 20th century regarding animals. Until this date, anyone who wanted to bring to Maui a family pet had to quarantine the animal for 30 to 120 days, depending on the vaccination status. For years, a new process for rabies detection had been in place which validated an animal free or rabies within five days, but the state refused to use the process because of all the civil servants hired to work within the old system. (And yes, that’s a live puppy in the photo.)
EVENTS ON THIS DAY – June 22nd
- 1342: Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End (Shire Reckoning)
- 1772: Slavery outlawed in England
- 1808: Zebulon Pike reaches his peak, Pike’s in Colorado
- 1847: The doughnut is invented
- 1870: Congress creates the U.S. Department of Justice
- 1940: France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed
- 1941: Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
- 1944: FDR signs G.I. Bill of Rights, benefitting those who served in WW II
- 1970: President Richard Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18
- 1977: Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell begin sserving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up
- 1981: Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing rock musician John Lennon
- 2004: A federal judge approves a class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit representing 1.6 million female workers against Wal-Mart
BORN ON THIS DAY – June 22nd
- 1757: George Vancouver, explorer/surveyor
- 1856: H Rider Haggard, author
- 1858: Giacomo Puccini, operatic composer
- 1887: Julian Huxley, biologist/philosopher
- 1898: Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist
- 1906: Billy Wilder, movie director
- 1907: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American aviator/author
- 1909: Michael Todd, producer
- 1921: Joseph Papp, stage producer/director
- 1922: Bill Blass, fashion designer
- 1928: Orson Bean, comedian
- 1933: Dianne Feinstein, (Mayor-D-SF, US Senator)
- 1936: Kris Kristofferson, singer/actor
- 1941: Ed Bradley, CBS news correspondent
- 1947: Don Henley, drummer/singer
- 1948: Todd Rundgren, rock singer
- 1949: Lindsay Wagner, actress
- 1949: Meryl Streep, actress
- 1954: Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor
- 1964: Amy Brenneman, actress
- 1964: Dan Brown, author
DIED ON THIS DAY – June 22nd
- 1429: Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
- 1925: Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
- 1928: A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
- 1964: Havank, Dutch writer (b. 1904)
- 1965: David O. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1902)
- 1969: Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
- 1987: Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
- 1988: Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
- 1993: Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- 1995: Al Hansen, American artist (b. 1927)
- 2002: Ann Landers, American columnist (b. 1918)
- 2004: Bob Bemer, American computer scientist (b. 1920)
- 2008: George Carlin, American comedian, actor (b. 1937)
