Int’l Aura Awareness Day Day 326 of 2009 39 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘A‘a: Volunteer
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Dripman: Vagrant
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A mudhen cries because it has water.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The easiest solutions are tried last” - Anon

HAWAII NEWS ARCHIVES – November 22, 1922
The Hawaiian Homes Commission, the parent of the Hawaiian Homelands organization, offers lots to Molokai residents which combine residential use with farmland, answering a request of some residents. Few residents, however, end up with any land.

Many Molokai residents are understandably not thrilled with the arrangement offered. Their ancestors, going back hundreds of years, had not “owned” anything. The concept of owning land was anathema to the old Hawaiian ways. Several old timers, especially those who remembered the Great Mahele of 1848, when the Christians offered land to every Hawaiian, if only they would sign away the rights to that land first. The Hawaiians expected the Christians to be true to their word, a disappointment that many in history have had to learn. Hawaiians ended up with little of the land to call their own. Now, this new commission. More than 86 years later, it’s not any better. The average wait for two acres of land from Hawaiian Homelands, if you are of Hawaiian descent, is 15 years. Most of the land given out lies unused. It’s unclear why the wait is so long.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY – November 22

• 1842: Mount St. Helens erupts in the state of Washington
• 1953: At 8pm EST, NBC makes the first network transmission using the RCA “compatible color” when it airs “The Colgate Comedy Hour” (CBS had made color broadcast attempts previous to this, but they could not be seen by both black & white and color television receivers)
• 1963: President John F Kennedy is assasinated in Dallas, TX
• 1965: Muhammad Ali defeats former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas
• 1989: Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & the Moon
• 1990: Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
• 1998: CBS “60 Minutes” airs videotape of Dr. Jack Kevorkian giving lethal drugs to terminally-ill Thomas Youk (Kevorkian is later sentenced to up to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder)
• 2005 Angela Merkel took power as Germany’s first female chancellor.

BORN ON THIS DAY – November 22

• 1511: Erasmus Reinhold, mathematician
• 1744: Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady
• 1819: George Eliot, novelist
• 1869: Andre Gide, novelist
• 1890: Charles de Gaulle, President of France
• 1899: Hoagy Carmichael, actor/songwriter
• 1912: Doris Duke, multi-millionaire
• 1921: Rodney Dangerfield, comedian
• 1940: Terry Gilliam, comedy writer-animator
• 1941: Tom Conti, actor
• 1943: Billie Jean King, tennis pro
• 1950: Steve Van Zandt, rock musician/actor
• 1958: Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
• 1961: Mariel Hemingway, actress
• 1967: Mark Ruffalo, actor
• 1984: Scarlett Johansson, actress

DIED ON THIS DAY – November 22

• 1718 Edward “Blackbeard” Teach English pirate, dies off Virginia coast
• 1943 Lorenz Hart lyricist, dies in NY
• 1963 Aldous Huxley English novelist. (“Brave New World” )
• 1963 C.S.Lewis English novelist. (“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”)
• 1963 John F Kennedy 35th U.S. President, assassinated in Dallas, Texas
• 1980 Leonard Barr comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at 77
• 1980 Mae West dies at her Hollywood residence at 87
• 1983 Michael Conrad actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58