First Friday in Wailuku
July 3, 2009 7:35 am > MAUI TODAY |
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Disobedience Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Hoa paio: Adversary PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Poro: Friend HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The mouths of people make noise like mud crabs.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” (Frederich Niezsche)
July 3, 1919: The first copies of the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper are delivered by airmail to Maui. No one wanted to read it then, either.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY – July 3rd
- 1775: Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge Massachusetts
- 1806: Michael Keens exhibits the first cultivated strawberry
- 1848: Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin Islands)
- 1986: The renovated Statue of Liberty is re-dedicated
- 2001: General Electric’s $41 billion purchase of Honeywell International is vetoed by the European Union
- 2005: NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target as planned in a mission to learn how the solar system formed.
BORN ON THIS DAY - July 3rd
- 1567: Samuel de Champlain, explorer
- 1878: George M. Cohan, producer/director
- 1883: Franz Kafka, writer
- 1925: Tony Curtis, actor
- 1927: Ken Russell, director
- 1937: Tom Stoppard, playwright
- 1941: Gloria Allred, feminist attorney
- 1943: Geraldo Rivera newsman/TV show host
- 1947: Dave Barry, humorist
- 1962: Tom Cruise, actor
DIED ON THIS DAY – July 3rd
- 1778: Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
- 1965: Trigger, Roy Rogers’s horse (b. 1932)
- 1969: Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
- 1971: Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
- 1989: Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1993: Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
- 1995: Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
- 2007: Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
