It’s All About the Water
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kopa‘a: Sugar PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Kalenda: Calendar HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY— “Shut the mouth, keep the hands busy.” HAOLE QUOTE OF THE DAY— “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Project Gutenberg
TODAY: Native Mauian Challenges Wait List for Water Meters in State Court. James Davis, who originally applied for a water meter on his Kula property in the 1970s, is asserting through his attorney James Fosbinder,constitutional claims of uncompensated taking and violation of equal protection and due process. More >
February 7th, 1916: The sugar business and its workers on Maui are dealt a serious blow when the U.S. Government removes all but three Hawaii-America steamers from sugar transportation and moves them to the “Atlantic Trade”, a euphemistic term which really means ships which shuttle supplies to Great Britain in its war on Germany. The three ships supplying Hawaiian sugar to San Francisco cannot carry the sugar available. Workers on Maui are laid off, prices fall on Hawaii, sugar rots in warehouses and costs rise on the mainland. The stress is somewhat relieved in 1917 when two more steamers are added to the fleet.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — February 7th
- 1891: The Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
- 1964: The Beatles land at NY’s JFK airport, for the group’s first U.S. tour
- 1964: Cassius Clay becomes a Black Muslim and takes the name Muhammed Ali
- 1965: U.S. begins regular bombing & strafing of North Vietnam
- 1966: NBC-TV commits to the first season of Star Trek for its Fall schedule
- 1971: Women win the right to vote in Switzerland
- 1984: Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart become the first humans to fly free of a spacecraft
- 1991: The Reverand Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as Haiti’s first democratically-elected president
- 1995: Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad Pakistan
- 2005: Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, the most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese, was convicted of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at his church during the 1980s. (Shanley was sentenced to 12-15 years in prison.)
BORN ON THIS DAY — February 7th
- 1478: Sir Thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England
- 1804: John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
- 1812: Charles Dickens, novelist
- 1817: Frederick Douglas, abolitionist
- 1883: Eubie Blake, ragtime composer
- 1885: Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic
- 1932: Gay Talese, author
- 1960: James Spader, actor
- 1960: Steve Bronski, rock synthesizer (Bronski)
- 1962: Eddie Izzard, actor
- 1962: David Bryan, rock keyboardist (Bon Jovi)
- 1962: Troyal Garth Brooks (aka Garth Brooks), country singer/songwriter
- 1965: Chris Rock, actor/comedian
- 1965: Jason Gedrick, actor
- 1978: Ashton Kutcher, actor
DIED ON THIS DAY — February 7th
- 1823: Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (b. 1764)
- 1938: Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer (b. 1868)
- 1959: Guitar Slim, American blues guitarist (b. 1926)
- 1998: Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
- 1999: King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
- 1999: José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)
- 2000: Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)
- 2001: Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
- 2001: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)
