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It’s All Over But the Voting

October 30, 2010 9:53 am tr Local Election, MAUI TODAY, Maui Yesterdays

Nat’l Weatherization Day
Day 303 of 2010
62 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Olohani: Mutiny

PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — As: Anus

HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “No particular food blocks the anus.”

HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “When a rogue kisses you, count your teeth” – (Jewish)

TODAY: October 30, 2010

Abercrombie Gives Impassioned Speech in His Last Maui Appearance Before the Election. Read The Maui News story >
“What kind of slimeballs run our national political parties?” The Maui News asks. Read editorial >

HAWAII EVENTS ON THIS DAY – October 30

1930: Matson Navigation Co. and the Los Angeles Steamship line announce they are merging.
1933: Hui Manu – a Honolulu-based organization that was formed to to introduce songbirds to the Hawaiian Islands – releases Mockingbirds on Maui, because, evidently, Maui doesn’t have enough birds which sing prettily. (Mockingbirds are members of the Mimidae family, with about 17 species in three genera.) According to Robin Doughty in The Mockingbird: “Native birds, already buffeted by logging, agriculture (cane) and settlement, have had to cope with [introduced] alien species…. Since 1796, 170 bird species have been introduced to Hawaii, and many have succeeded in displacing endemic species.”x
1958: Wilson Tunnel opens for Kane’ohe-bound traffic. The tunnel was opened to Honolulu-bound traffic the next day.
2004: Almost 9 inches of rain falls in six hours in Manoa Valley. Debris collected at bridges and bends in Manoa Stream pushed floodwaters over the banks and into more than 120 homes, causing an estimated $5 million in damage.

WORLD EVENTS ON THIS DAY – October 30

1270: The eighth and last Crusade is launched
1650: The members of the Society of Friends are first called Quakers when their founder, George Fox, testifies in a court case that members “quake and tremble at the word of God”
1925: The world’s first television transmission is seen in London England when John Baird succeeds in building a device in his attic from a tea chest, cardboard scanning discs, an empty biscuit box, old electric motors, darning needles, motorcycle lamp lenses, piano wire, glue, string and sealing wax
1938: Orson Welles panics a nation with his CBS radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds” on the Mercury Radio Theater (the live drama uses fake news reports that panics listeners who believe its portrayal of a Martian invasion is true)
1944: Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
1974: 32-year old Muhammad Ali KO’s George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire and reclaims the world heavyweight championship
1990: Three years after drilling began, the construction workers from both sides of the tunnel under the English Channel (aka the Chunnel) break through to each other.
2003: Lebron James made his NBA debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
2005: Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

BORN ON THIS DAY – October 30

DIED ON THIS DAY – October 30

1626: Willebord van Roijen Dutch mathematician, dies at 35
1893: Sir John Abbott PM of Canada (C) (1891-92), dies at 72
1968 Pert Kelton actress (Cavalcade of Stars), dies at 61
1972: Alan Roth orch leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 68
1984: June Duprez actress, dies at 66
1984: Mario Gallo actor (Delvecchio), dies at 61
1985: Kirby Grant Hoon Jr., Butte Mont, actor (Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74
1991: William Shea (Shea Stadium namesake), dies at 84
2000: Steve Allen, Comedian, TV host, author and composer dies at age 78
2005: Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
2006: Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
2007: Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
2009: Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (b. 1908)