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July 13, 2009 9:41 am > MAUI TODAY |
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Manu: Bird PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Gris: Ointment HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “So the ants will cry for you.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then they get elected and prove it.” (P.J.O’Rourke)
TODAY: 4th Annual House of the Sun Tour. The Hawaii PV Coalition lobbies local politicians and media members to promote policies and laws that would make the use of widespread alternative energy – particularly solar – more reality than vision. More >
July 13th 1957: Molokai finally gets an airport, the last large Hawaiian Island to do so.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 13th
- 1863: Civil War military draft rioting begins in New York City (1,000 people are killed including blacks hanged by mobs)
- 1865: Horace Greeley advises his readers to “Go west young man” (he meant Michigan)
- 1917: The vision of the Virgin Mary appears to children of Fatima Portugal
- 1919: The first lighter-than-air transatlantic flight is completed
- 1985: “Live Aid”, a 17-hour rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow & Sydney, broadcasts to 152 countries and raises $70 million for the starving people of Africa
- 22005: Former WorldCom Inc. boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history.
- 2006: Israel imposes a naval blockade against Lebanon and blasted the Beirut airport and army air bases; Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into Israel.
- 2007: Former media mogul Conrad Black is convicted in Chicago of swindling the far-flung Hollinger International newspaper empire he once ran out of millions of dollars. (Black is serving a 6-year sentence at a federal prison in Florida.)X
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 13th
- 1396: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
- 1928: Bob Crane, actor (Hogan’s Heroes)
- 1935: Jack Kemp, congressman (Rep-R-NY) former U.S. Secretary of Housing
- 1940: Patrick Stewart, actor (Capt Picard-Star Trek Next Generation)
- 1940: Paul Prudhomme, cajun chef
- 1942: Harrison Ford, actor
- 1942: Roger McGuinn, rock musician (The Byrds)
- 1944: Erno Rubik, inventor (Rubik’s cube)
- 1946: Richard “Cheech” Marin, actor/comedian
- 1950: Dr. George D “Pinky” Nelson, astronaut
- 1954: Cameron Crowe, film director
- 1956: Mark “Animal” Mendoza, rock musician
- 1963: Bobby Rock, rock drummer
- 1970: Steven J Brown, guitarist
DIED ON THIS DAY — July 13th
- 1762: James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)
- 1793: Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (b. 1743)
- 1807: Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
- 1882: Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter (b. 1850)
- 1890: John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (b. 1813)
- 1955: Ruth Ellis, last woman to get the death sentence in Britain (b. 1926)
- 1967: Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)
