Penultimate Day of 2009
December 30, 2009 7:36 am > MAUI TODAY Penultimate Day of 2009 |
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Olelo: Word PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Tok: Word HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Life is in the word, death is in the word.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” - Rudyard Kipling
Erin Cure photo
December 30, 1956; January 4, 1974; and lots of other dates, too: State officials on Oahu call for a ban on fireworks for the entire state. In 1956, there were more than 110 injuries from fireworks, most of them inflicted on children. Fireworks are on sale big-time at Wal-Mart, Long’s and Costco today, anyway.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY
- 1813: The first coffee is planted in Hawaii
- 1906: Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
- 1922: USSR established
- 1924: Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galactic systems
- 1952: Tuskegee Institue reports 1952 is the first year in 71 years with no lynchings anywhere in the U.S.
- 1972: President Nixon halts the bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
- 1988: President Reagan and President-elect Bush are subpoenaed to testify as defense witnesses in the pending Iran-Contra trial of Oliver North (the subpoenas were later quashed)
- 1999: Former Beatle George Harrison fights off a knife-wielding intruder who breaks into his mansion west of London and stabs Harrison in the chest
- 2003: The federal government bans the sale of herbal stimulant ephedra
- 2006: Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is hanged.
- 2007: Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of a rigged election
- 2008: In a surprise move, a defiant Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich named former state Attorney General Roland Burris to Barack Obama’s Senate seat.
BORN ON THIS DAY
- 1865: Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din-Nobel ’07)
- 1867: Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist (died aboard the Titanic)
- 1879: Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher/yogi
- 1928: Bo Diddley, (Ellas Bates) (Hawaii 5-0, God’s Little Acre)
- 1932: John Hillerman, actor (Magnum PI, Blazing Saddles, Audrey Rose)
- 1945: Davy Jones, singer (Monkees)
- 1951: Meredith Vieiera, TV hostesess
- 1957: Matt Lauer, TV host (“Today”)
- 1959: Tracey Ullman, Actress/comediann
- 1961: Sean Hannit, TV host (“Hannity & Colmes”)
- 1975: Tiger Woods, PGA golfer
- 1984: LeBron James, NBA player
DIED ON THIS DAY
- 1944: Romain Roland French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78
- 1966: Christian A Herter US Minister of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71
- 1979: Richard Rodgers composer (Rogers & Hammerstein), dies at 77
- 1992: Ling-Ling 1st panda China gave US, dies at 23
- 1993: [Irving Paul] “Swifty” Lazar superagent, dies of kidney failure at 86
- 1993: Mack David US songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81
- 1994: Lloyd James Austin french Scholar, dies at 79
- 1996: Jack Nance actor (Meatballs 4, Whore, Voodoo), murdered at 53
- 1996: Lew Ayres screen actor
- 2006: Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was hanged
