Environmental Milestone
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Ano o ka nohana: Environment PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Bus: Countryside HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Where were you when the rain poured?” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land .” (Wendell Berry)
June 27, 2008: Hawai’i Becomes First in Nation to Require Solar
This landmark legislation (Act 204) to require solar on new homes would not have passed without community support. EVENTS ON THIS DAY – June 27th
- 1542: Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo departs from the port of Navidad Mexico, leading the first European expedition to explore what is now the west coast of the United States
- 1838: Queen Victoria is crowned
- 1844: Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, is killed (Carthage IL)
- 1846: Smithsonian Institution established
- 1847: Telegraph wires connect Boston and New York
- 1950: President Truman orders Air Force and Navy troops into the Korean conflict after the U.N. calls for assistance for South Korea
- 1950: The U.S. sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
- 1954: CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow the elected government of Guatemala
- 1955: The first automobile seat belt legislation is enacted (Illinois)
- 1969: The birth of the homosexual rights movement: police raid the Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village NY (about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against the police for 3 days)
- 1973: John W Dean tells the Watergate Committee about the “enemies list” of the Nixon White House
- 1986: The World Court rules that U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan Contras is illegal
- 1990: Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8,600 to help their earthquake victims
- 2007: Former Treasury chief Gordon Brown became British prime minister, succeeding Tony Blair.
BORN ON THIS DAY – June 27th
- 1846: Charles Stewart Parnell, Ireland nationalist
- 1869: Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher
- 1880: Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer
- 1927: Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo/Clarabelle
- 1938: Bruce E. Babbitt, former governor of AZ
- 1942: Bruce Johnston, rocker
- 1966: J.J. Abrams, writer/producer
- 1975: Tobey Maguire, actor
- 1991: Madylin Sweeten, actress
DIED ON THIS DAY – June 27th
- 1627: John Hayward, English historian
- 1773: Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. c. 1706)
- 1831: Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
- 1844: Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1805)
- 1991: Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
- 1996: Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
- 2001: Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2002: John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who) (b. 1944)
- 2003: David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937)
- 2004: George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
- 2005: Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
- 2008: Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
