1st Annual Paia Fest
June 28, 2009 1:25 pm > MAUI TODAY 1st Annual Paia Fest |
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Paul Bunyan Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ho‘omana‘o‘ana: Memory PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Holim long tingting: Remember HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “High flies the cloud in the sky lifted by the wind.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Nothing is so much strengthened by practice, nor weakened by neglect, as memory.” (Quintillian)
TODAY: The first annual Paia Fest is this Sunday, June 28, from 12-10pm. Nowhere else can you find a line up of entertainment like the one planned for you by the town of Paia. Over 20 music acts and dozens of local artists and vendors are providing family friendly entertainment that also will benefit the Maui Food Bank, the Dharma Center, Maui Breast Cancer Fund, and Mana’o Radio.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY – June 28th
- 1838: Britain’s Queen Victoria is crowned in Westminster Abbey
- 1938: The National Minimum Wage Act is passed by Congress
- 1951: The radio program “Amos ‘n Andy” premieres on television (CBS) to become the first TV series with an all-African American cast (also negatively stereotyping African Americans)
- 1956: The first atomic reactor is built for private research (Chicago Illinois)
- 1965: The first U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam are authorized by President Johnson
- 1967: Israel formally declares that Jerusalem is reunified under its sovereignty (the Arab sector was captured in June)
- 1977: The U.S. Supreme Court rules to allow Federal control of the Nixon tapes and transcripts
- 2000: Elian Gonzalez is returned to Cuba, seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits
- 2000: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders
- 2001: Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was handed over by Serbia to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
- 2004: The United States resumed direct diplomatic ties with Libya after a 24-year break.
BORN ON THIS DAY – June 28th
- 1491: Henry VIII, of England
- 1577: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter
- 1712: Jean Jacques Rousseau, social commentator
- 1867: Luigi Pirandello, writer
- 1909: Eric Ambler, suspense author
- 1926: Mel Brooks, comedic actor/director/playwright
- 1933: Pat (Noriyuki) Morita, actor
- 1945: David Knights, bassist
- 1946: Gilda Radner, comedienne
- 1948: Kathy Bates, actress
- 1960: John Elway, NFL QB
- 1966: John Cusack, actor
- 1966: Mary Stuart Masterson, actress
- 1973: Alessandro Nivola, actor
- 1986: Kellie Pickler, country singer
DIED ON THIS DAY – June 28th
- 548: Theodora, Byzantine empress
- 1194: Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
- 1836: James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
- 1889: Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
- 1914: Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
- 1975: Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b. 1924)
- 1981: Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
- 2000: Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
- 2005: Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
- 2006: Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
- 2009: Billy Mays, American television direct-response advertisement salesperson, also known as TV’s Legendary Pitchman (b. 1958)
