Visitors Up, But Still Down
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mea kipa: Visitor PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Kam man: Tourist HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “My heart’s wings give flight to my dreams.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay” (Josh Billings)TODAY: Maui Visitors Up, But Still Lagging. Maui County welcomed 1,068,804 visitors in the first six months of 2010, a gain of 7.1 percent over the year before, but far below the 1.3 million or more than would be expected in a non-recession 6 months. More >
July 29th, 2009: Visitor Numbers Not So Sweet Maui island welcomed 176,455 visitors in June, which was 8,000 fewer, or 4.3 percent less, than the year before, which in turn was 48,000 fewer than in 2007, the year before that. More >
July 29th, 1835: The first sugar plantation in Hawaii begins production. Sugar takes on ever increasing economic importance, requiring a large plantation labor population that cannot be provided by the native population, seriously depleted by introduced diseases
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 29th
- 1588: The attacking Spanish Armada is defeated & scattered by English defenders in the Battle of Gravelines
- 1914: The first transcontinental phone link is made between NYC and San Francisco
- 1952: The first nonstop jet trans-Pacific flight is made
- 1957: The International Atomic Energy Agency is established
- 1966: Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle crash near Woodstock NY
- 1974: The 2nd impeachment vote of President Nixon is conducted by the House Judiciary Committee
- 1974: Singer “Mama” Cass Elliot, of The Mamas and the Papas, dies in London at 30 (reported as choking on food but later determined to be a heart attack)
- 1987: Ben & Jerry’s ice cream & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor: Cherry Garcia
- 1988: The South African government bans the anti-apartheid film, “Cry Freedom”
- 2008: Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was indicted on seven felony counts of concealing more than a quarter of a million dollars in house renovations and gifts from a powerful oil contractor. (A judge later dismissed the case, saying prosecutors had withheld evidence.)
- 2008: Army scientist Bruce Ivins commited suicide as prosecutors prepared to indict him in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 29th
- 1805: Alexis de Tocqueville, statesman/writer
- 1869: Booth Tarkington, novelist
- 1871: Rasputin, the mad Russian monk
- 1883: Benito Mussolini, fascist Italian dictator
- 1892: William Powell, actor
- 1905: Clara Bow, silent screen actress
- 1905: Dag Hammarskjold, former U.N. secretary-general
- 1914: “Professor Irwin Corey, comedian
- 1953: Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker
- 1972: Wil Wheaton, actor
- 1974: Josh Radnor, actor
DIED ON THIS DAY — July 29th
- 1856: Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810)
- 1890: Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
- 1979: Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (b. 1898)
- 2007: Tom Snyder, American television personality (b. 1936)
