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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Nalo meli: Honey bee
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Hani: Honey
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —“The summer sunlight is rich honey poured upon the flowers.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off.” (Edmund Hillary)
TODAY: Mufi’s Maui News Endorsement for U.S. House 2nd Congressional District. “He is the right candidate, at the right time, for the 2nd Congressional seat. His background is replete with instances of working together to find compromises to solve problems.” More >
1969: The first men land on the Moon, aboard Apollo 11 – Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin – “It’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” The mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy’s goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s, which he had expressed during a speech given before a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961. More >
HAWAII EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 20th
- 1878: The first telephone is introduced in Hawaii
- 1920: Nu’uanu Stream has become a “veritable cesspool” running through Honolulu, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports. The paper said a modern sewage system is needed for Honolulu.
- 1934: Arthur McCormack is appointed superintendent of the Hawaiian Humane Society animal home. He previously was superintendent of the territory’s animal quarantine station.
- 1956: The Advertiser reports a shopping center is planned for the 50-acre area bounded by Ala Moana, Pi’ikoi and Kona streets and Atkinson Drive.
WORLD EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 20th
- 1881: Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn surrendered to federal troops
- 1985: Divers find the wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha (contained gold and other treasure)
- 1987: Don Mattingly ties the first base fielding record (22 put-outs)
1990: A federal appeals court sets aside Oliver North’s Iran-Contra convictions (reversing one outright) - 1992: Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, steps down as president of Czechoslovakia
- 2007: President George W. Bush signs an executive order prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment, including humiliation or denigration of religious beliefs, in the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects
- 1919: Sir Edmund Hillary, one of first 2 men to scale Mt Everest
- 1920: Elliot L Richardson, Attorney General/Sec of Defense
- 1938: Diana Rigg, actress
- 1938: Natalie Wood, actress
- 1943: John Lodge, bassist (Moody Blues)
- 1944: T G Sheppard, country singer
- 1945:Larry Craig, US senator (R-Idaho)
- 1946: Kim Carnes, singer
- 1947: Carlos Santana, musician
- 1954: Jay Jay French, guitarist (Twisted Sister)
- 1955: Michael Anthony, bassist (Van Halen)
- 1968: Chris Kennedy, actor
- 1969: Josh Holloway, actor (Sawyer on “Lost”)
- 1978: Charlie Korsmo, actor
- 1978: Elliott Yamin, singer (“American Idol”)1988: Julianne Hough, singer-dancer (“Dancing with the Stars”)
DIED ON THIS DAY — July 20th
- 1320: King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
- 1351: Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b. 1291)
- 1923: Francisco “Pancho” Villa, Mexican Rebel (b. 1878)
- 1937: Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874)
- 1945: Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
- 1973: Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
- 1993: Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (b. 1945)
- 2006: Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)
- 2007: Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker), American televangelist (b. 1942)
- 2008: Artie Traum, American guitarist (b. 1943)
- 2009: Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (b. 1957)
- 2009: Mark Rosenzweig, American brain researcher (b. 1922)
- 2012: Sherman Pendergarst, American mixed martial artist (b. 1966)
- 2012: José Hermano Saraiva, Portuguese historian and jurist (b. 1919)
