40th Anniversary of Moon Landing
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mahina: Moon PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Mun: Moon HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “She has a face as bright as the moon.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off.” (Edmund Hillary)
July 20, 1969: The first men land on the Moon, aboard Apollo 11 – Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin - “It’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” The mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy’s goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s, which he had expressed during a speech given before a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961. More >
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 20th
- 1878: The first telephone is introduced in Hawaii
1881: Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn surrendered to federal troops - 1985: Divers find the wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha (contained gold and other treasure)
- 1987: Don Mattingly ties the first base fielding record (22 put-outs)
1990: A federal appeals court sets aside Oliver North’s Iran-Contra convictions (reversing one outright) - 1992: Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, steps down as president of Czechoslovakia
- 2007: President George W. Bush signs an executive order prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment, including humiliation or denigration of religious beliefs, in the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects
