Yikes! Paia the New Lahaina?
November 3, 2009 7:02 am > MAUI TODAY Yikes! Paia the New Lahaina? |
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Sandwich Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Apono: Endorse PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Sapotim: Support HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Hold the breath.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Senator McCain, Governor Palin and assorted surrogates are delusional and breathtakingly corrupt. They disgrace themselves and their country as they lie, smear, slur and write it off as political manner.” – John CusackTODAY : North shore merchants claim Paia is the new Lahaina – Unlike merchants in Lahaina, Paia businesses had an increase in Halloweeners Saturday night, with busier restaurants and mo’ better business in general. More >
EVENTS ON THIS DAY – November 3
- 1952: Clarence Birdseye begins marketing frozen peas
- 1953: The first live color coast-to-coast telecast is made (originates in NYC)
- 1979: Five people are mortally wounded during an anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in North Carolina
- 1979: 63 Americans are taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran Iran
- 1998: Former pro wrestler Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota.
- 1999: Aaron McKinney was convicted of murder in the beating of gay Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard. (McKinney and Russell Henderson are each serving life in prison for the 1998 slaying.)
- 2004: Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan’s first-ever presidential election.
- 2005: Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, pleaded not guilty to a five-count felony indictment in the CIA leak case. (Libby was convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison; President George W. Bush commuted his sentence.)
- 2006: Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), who had pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling investigation, resigned from Congress.
BORN ON THIS DAY – November 3
- 1713: John Montague, Earl of Sandwich / Captain Cook’s patron
- 1793: Stephen Austin, colonized Texas
- 1794: William Cullen Bryant, poet
- 1903: Walker Evans, photographer
- 1922: Charles Bronson, actor
- 1933: Michael S Dukakis, (D-Gov-Mass)
- 1953: Kate Capshaw, actress
- 1953: Roseanne Barr, comedienne
- 1954: Adam Ant, (Stuart Goddard), punk rocker
- 1959: Dolph Lundgren, actor
DIED ON THIS DAY – November 3
- 1926: Annie Oakley, champion sharpshooter and former star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, dies of “pernicious anemia” in the Ohio home of the Misses Broderick and Zemer
