Mango Picker Electrocuted
July 2, 2009 6:06 am > MAUI TODAY |
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UFO Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mai’a: Banana PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Wanpela tasol: Alone HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Lying face up and counting the rafters.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.” (Mark Twain)
Tuesday Last: A 59-year-old man was electrocuted and killed Tuesday morning while picking mangoes in a tree at the family residence in Lahaina. More >
July 2nd, 1968: Maui is nearly destroyed, and everything we now hold dear about this island is made nearly extinct, by an overwhelming invasion. Or, at least the nutjob of a mayor thought so. Elmer Cravalho says, “the presence of hippies on Maui is causing more unrest in the community than any event since World War II.” The mayor estimates the number of hippies on the island at 100.
World War II…Hippies. World War II..Hippies. Yeah, they come out about equal on my scale, too. Oh wait, it’s unfair. There’s a finger on one side of the scale. Let me give that finger to Mr. Cravalho. — Maui Curmudgen
EVENTS ON THIS DAY – July 2nd
- 1832: Native American Black Hawk is defeated in Iowa
- 1881: President Garfield is shot in Washington DC by Charles J Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker (Garfield dies in September)
- 1890 Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act
- 1937: Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator
- 1947: An object crashes near Roswell, New Mexico that the US Army Air Force later insists is a weather balloon (but eyewitness accounts give rise to speculation it may be an alien spacecraft)
- 1961: Author Ernest Hemingway, 61, shoots himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho
- 1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law a sweeping civil rights bill
- 1971: Oregon enacts the first state litter law
- 1976: North & South Vietnam are formally reunified
- 1976: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual punishment
- 1986: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in two rulings
- 2002: American Steve Fossett returns to western Australia to become the first person to fly a balloon solo around the world
- 2007: President George W. Bush commutes the sentence of former aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, sparing him from a two-and-half-year prison term in the CIA leak case.
BORN ON THIS DAY - July 2nd
- 1894: Walter Brennan, actor
- 1908: Thurgood Marshall, first black Supreme Court justice
- 1925: Medgar Evers, African-American rights leader
- 1925: Patrice Lumumba, revolutionary
- 1929: Imelda Marcos, former Phillipine first lady
- 1949: Larry David, writer-director
- 1952: Linda M Godwin, PhD/astronaut
- 1956: Jeffrey Cooper, guitarist
- 1964: Jose Canseco, baseball player
- 1986: Lindsay Lohan, New York City, actress
DIED ON THIS DAY – July 2nd
- 1566: Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
- 1621: Thomas Harriot, English astronomer
- 1973: Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
- 1989: Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (b. 1909)
- 1997: James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1999: Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920)
- 2006: Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916)
- 2007: Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)
- 2008: Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (b. 1956)
- 2008: Elizabeth Spriggs, English-Born Actress (b. 1929)
