Historic Haleakala Crash
June 24, 2009 7:05 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays |
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Swim Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DY — Ho’okui: Hit PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Boskru bilong balus: Crew of a plane HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “One can enjoy a canoe ride when the paddler is skilled.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music…and of aviation.” (Tom Stoppard)
June 24th, 1941: Haleakala proves deadly to three Navy planes piloted by Marines who were making a routine night flight over Maui about six months before the U.S. entered World War II. In what is still today a somewhat inexplicable occurrence, all three planes hit the west side of the volcano at about 8,000 feet and all the pilots died.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY – June 24th
- 1497: John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
- 1509: Henry VIII becomes King of England
- 1861: Tennessee becomes the 11th (& last) state to secede from the U.S.
- 1949: “Hopalong Cassidy” becomes the first televised network western (NBC)
- 1968: “Resurrection City,” a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People’s March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
- 1970: U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- 1997: The Air Force releases a report on the 1947 “Roswell Incident” that states the alien bodies seen by witnesses were actually life-sized dummies
- 1998: AT&T Corp. agrees to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion
- 2004: Federal investigators question President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative’s name.
BORN ON THIS DAY – June 24th
- 1771: EI Du Pont, chemist/scientist
- 1813: Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman/orator
- 1842: Ambrose Bierce, satirist
- 1912: Norman Cousins, editor
- 1915: Fred Hoyle, cosmologist
- 1916: John Ciardi, poet/critic
- 1942: Mick Fleetwood, drummer
- 1944: Bruce Johnston, rocker
- 1944: Jeff Beck, singer/songwriter
- 1947: Peter Weller, actor
- 1950: Nancy Allen, actress
- 1957: Astro, reggae singer
- 1961: Curt Smith, rocker
- 1979: Mindy Kaling actress/producer
- 1987: Kaitlin Cullum, actress
DIED ON THIS DAY – June 24th
- 1398: Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)
- 1520: Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)
- 1803: Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)
- 1817: Thomas McKean, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1734)
- 1909: Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
- 1987: Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (b. 1916)
- 1997: Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
- 2005: Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
- 2006: Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956)
