Swine Flu Beats the DOW
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kalai‘aina: Politics PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Politsen: Politician HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Truth comes from the night.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “POLITICS, n: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” (Ambrose Bierce)
TODAY: Hawaii Swine Flu victims at Over 1000 - The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports Hawaii’s swine flu count has risen to 1,424. In all, the CDC said that there are been 43,771 cases, including 302 deaths across the nation since the disease was first identified in April. The first case in Hawaii was confirmed in early May.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 24th
- 1758: George Washington is admitted to the Virginia House of Burgess
- 1847: Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrive in the valley of the Great Salt Lake (Utah)
- 1866: Tennessee becomes the first state to be re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War
- 1969: Muhammad Ali is convicted, on appeal, for refusing induction into the U.S. Army
- 1972: Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16 years of age
- 1974: The Supreme Court rules unanimously that President Richard M. Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
- 1978: “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” premieres in NYC
- 1998: A gunman bursts into the U.S. Capitol, opening fire and killing two police officers before being shot and captured
- 2005: Lance Armstrong captures a record-breaking 7th consecutive Tour de France victory
- 2008: Cheered by an enormous crowd in Berlin, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama summoned Europeans and Americans together to “defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it” as surely as they had conquered communism a generation ago
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 24th
- 1783: Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule
- 1802: Alexandre Dumas, French author
- 1842: Ambrose Bierce, writer
- 1895: Robert Graves, British poet/historical novelist
- 1898: Amelia Earhart, aviatrix
- 1900: Zelda Fitzgerald, first wife of F Scott
- 1920: Bella Abzug, US Rep (D-NY)
- 1935: Pat Oliphant, political cartoonist
- 1949: Michael Richards, actor
- 1951: Lynda Carter, Miss USA/actress
- 1953: Claire McCaskill, US senator (D-MO)
- 1956: Charlie Crist, Governor of Florida
- 1964: Barry Bonds, baseball player
- 1969: Jennifer Lopez, actress/singer
- 1981: Summer Glau, actress
- 1991: Anna Paquin, actress (“True Blood”)
DIED ON THIS DAY — July 24th
- 1115: Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
- 1129: Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan (b. 1053)
- 1862: Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)
- 1962: Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer (b. 1917)
- 1965: Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
- 1980: Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
- 1995: Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress, and occultist (b. 1922)
- 1995: George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908)
- 1997: William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1906)
