Reserve Recreation Ban Extended
July 9, 2010 7:23 am > MAUI TODAY Reserve Recreation Ban Extended |
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Recreation Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ka‘awela: Jupiter PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Liklik mun: Planet HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “He has the mouth of an octopus.” (liar) HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Property is theft.” (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon)
TODAY: The Ahihi-Kinau Natural Area Reserve in South Maui will remain closed for another two years, the DLNR announced this week. The reserve, a popular recreation area near La Perouse Bay, was closed Aug. 1, 2008, after large numbers of visitors had been hiking across the lava flows in search of coves that had been publicized in guidebooks as snorkel spots called “Fishbowl” and “Aquarium.” In the photo above, taken two years before the closure, recreationers enjoy one such banned location. More >
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 9th
- 1877: The first phone company, Bell Telephone Company, is founded by Alexander Graham Bell
- 1910: Walter Brookins becomes the first to pilot an airplane to an altitude of one mile above the Earth
- 1956: Dick Clark makes his first appearance as host of American Bandstand on ABC-TV
1978: Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington DC in support of the Equal Rights Amendment - 1995: The Grateful Dead play their last concert (Soldier Field in Chicago )
- 2002: The Senate votes to entomb thousands of tons of radioactive waste inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert, rejecting the state’s fervent protests
- 2004: A Senate Intelligence Committee report concludes the CIA had provided unfounded assessments of the threat posed by Iraq that the Bush administration relied on to justify going to war
- 2004: The International Court of Justice rules that Israel’s planned barrier in the West Bank barrier violated international law.
- 2008: Prosecutors cleared JonBenet Ramsey’s parents and brother in the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old beauty queen in Boulder, Colo.
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 9th
- 1819: Elias Howe, invented sewing machine
- 1858: Franz Boas, anthropologist/linguist
- 1932: Donald Rumsfeld, Sec’y Defense/war monger
- 1939: Richard Roundtree, actor
- 1940: Brian Dennehy, actor
- 1951: Chris Cooper, actor
- 1952: John Tesh, musician/composer/TV host
- 1956: Marc Almond, rock musician
- 1956: Tom Hanks, actor
- 1957: Kelly McGillis, actress
- 1955: Jimmy Smits, actor
- 1964: Courtney Love, singer
- 1976: Fred Savage, actor
DIED ON THIS DAY — July 9th
- 1850: Báb, Persian founder of the Bábi Faith (b. 1819)
- 1850: Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)
- 1856: Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776)
- 1974: Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891)
- 1977: Alice Paul, Women’s Rights Activist (b. 1885)
- 1985: Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish-born American founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
- 1992: Eric Sevareid, American reporter (b. 1912)
- 1996: Melvin Belli, American attorney (b. 1907)
- 2002: Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2006: Milan Williams, American keyboardist (The Commodores) (b. 1948)
- 2007: Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
