TRINITY DAY Day 197 of 2009 168 days left in this year

Poka pahu: Bomb
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Sit bilong paia: Ashes
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —  “He knows the big currents in the little currents.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.” (J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after the Trinity test of the first atomic bomb)

July 16, 1945 - TRINITY – The Atomic Age Begins: The first experimental “atomic bomb” is exploded at the “Trinity Site” in White Sands Missile Range near Alamogordo, NM. Read more …

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 16th

• 1439: Kissing is banned in England
• 1548: La Paz Bolivia is founded
• 1769: Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, the first mission in California
• 1775: John Adams graduates Harvard College
• 1790: The U.S. Congress establishes the District of Columbia as the seat of U.S. government
• 1951: The novel “Catcher in the Rye,” by J.D. Salinger, is first published
• 1973: During the Watergate hearings, former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield reveals the existence of taped conversations in the Oval Office
• 1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the single-engine plane Kennedy is piloting plunges into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, MA
• 2004: Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement by a federal judge in New York for lying about a stock sale

• 1821: Mary Baker Eddy, founded Christian Science
• 1872: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, discoverer of South Pole
• 1887: “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, baseball player
• 1907: Barbara Stanwyck, actress
• 1907: Orville Redenbacher, popcorn king
• 1911: Ginger Rogers, dancer/actress
• 1948: Ruben Blades, salsa singer/actor
• 1967: Will Ferrell, comedian/actor
• 1971: Corey Feldman, actor
• 1987: AnnaLynne McCord, actress (“Nip/Tuck”)