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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Hoa paio: Adversary
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Poro: Friend
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The mouths of people make noise like mud crabs.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” (Frederich Niezsche)

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July 3, 1919: The first copies of the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper are delivered by airmail to Maui. No one wanted to read it then, either.

1775: Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge Massachusetts
1806: Michael Keens exhibits the first cultivated strawberry
1848: Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin Islands)
1986: The renovated Statue of Liberty is re-dedicated
2001: General Electric’s $41 billion purchase of Honeywell International is vetoed by the European Union
2005: NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target as planned in a mission to learn how the solar system formed.

1567: Samuel de Champlain, explorer
1878: George M. Cohan, producer/director
1883: Franz Kafka, writer
1925: Tony Curtis,  actor
1927: Ken Russell, director
1937: Tom Stoppard, playwright
1941: Gloria Allred, feminist attorney
1943: Geraldo Rivera newsman/TV show host
1947: Dave Barry, humorist
1962: Tom Cruise, actor

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mai’a: Banana
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Wanpela tasol: Alone
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Lying face up and counting the rafters.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.” (Mark Twain)

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kahikoli: Early morning sun
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Ples bilong klaut: Sky
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The firebrand soars proudly over the cliffs.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.” (George Carlin)

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~ 2008 IS HALF OVER
~ FISCAL NEW YEAR

July 1st, 1961: The 30th U.S. National Park is dedicated - Haleakala National Park right here on Maui. It poured during the entire ceremony. Facts, figures, history and lots of good things about this park that includes the world’s largest inactive volcano, are available right here: http://www.nps.gov/hale

June 30, 1959: This really has nothing to do with Maui per se, but I find it interesting anyway. Before Hawaii became a state, the very first commercial jet to come to Hawaii arrived today, from San Francisco. The flight took 4 hours and 49 minutes (which is about what it takes today too). It was a Boeing 707 called The City of Sydney, and yes, it was owned by Quantas Airlines. The Royal Hawaiian Band played “Waltzing Matilda”. And for those of you who remember the movie “Rainman,” yes, it’s true. Quantas is the only major carrier in  the world that has never had an air accident.

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ho’okani: To make music
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Renbo: Rainbow
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Life is in the mouth; death is in the mouth.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anyone unintentionally. If I insult you. you can be goddamn sure I intend to.” (John Wayne)

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June 26, 1997: A GIANT DIES — Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole dies at the age of 38 because he can’t put his Poi down. At 758 pounds, he dies of complications from obesity, and instantly becomes a beloved singer and ukulele player nationwide. A gentle giant in the true sense of the word, Israel has many times the number of albums since his death than before. Perhaps his most well-known song is his version of “Somehwere Over the Rainbow,” which you can hear/see on YouTube.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 26th
1945: The charter of the United Nations is signed by 50 countries in San Francisco
1948: The Berlin Airlift begins in earnest as the United States, Britain and France began ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes
1963: President John F. Kennedy visits West Berlin, where he declared in a speech, “Ich bin ein Berliner”
1998: The Supreme Court issues a landmark sexual harassment ruling, putting employers on notice that they can be held responsible for supervisors’ misconduct even if they knew nothing about it
2000: Rival scientific teams complete the first rough map of the human genetic code
2003: The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, strikes down state bans on gay sex

BORN ON THIS DAY - June 26th
1730: Charles Messier, cataloger of astronomical “M objects”
1887: Anthony G de Rothschild, philanthropist
1892: Pearl S Buck, author
1904: Peter Lorre, actor
1909: Col Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager
1916: Alex Dreier, Honolulu Hawaii, newscaster
1922: Eleanor Parker, actress
1939: Charles Robb, (Sen-D-Va)
1955: Mick Jones, rocker
1956: Chris Isaak, musician/actor
1970: Chris O’Donnell, actor
1970: Sean Hayes, comedic actor
1974: Derek Jeter, shortstop
1981: Jason Schwartzman, actor
1981: Michael Vick, football player

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DY — Ho’okui: Hit
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Boskru bilong balus: Crew of a plane
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “One can enjoy a canoe ride when the paddler is skilled.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music…and of aviation.” (Tom Stoppard)

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June 24th, 1941: Haleakala proves deadly to three Navy planes piloted by Marines who were making a routine night flight over Maui about six months before the U.S. entered World War II. In what is still today a somewhat inexplicable occurrence, all three planes hit the west side of the volcano at about 8,000 feet and the pilots die.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 24th
1497: John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
1509: Henry VIII becomes King of England
1861: Tennessee becomes the 11th (& last) state to secede from the U.S.
1949: “Hopalong Cassidy” becomes the first televised network western (NBC)
1968: “Resurrection City,” a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People’s March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1970: U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1997: The Air Force releases a report on the 1947 “Roswell Incident” that states the alien bodies seen by witnesses were actually life-sized dummies
1998: AT&T Corp. agrees to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion
2004: Federal investigators question President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative’s name.

BORN ON THIS DAY - June 24th
1771: EI Du Pont, chemist/scientist
1813: Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman/orator
1842: Ambrose Bierce, satirist
1912: Norman Cousins, editor
1915: Fred Hoyle, cosmologist
1916: John Ciardi, poet/critic
1942: Mick Fleetwood, drummer
1944: Bruce Johnston, rocker
1944: Jeff Beck, singer/songwriter
1947: Peter Weller, actor
1950: Nancy Allen, actress
1957: Astro, reggae singer
1961: Curt Smith, rocker
1979: Mindy Kaling actress/producer
1987: Kaitlin Cullum, actress

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ilio: Dog
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Pusi: Cat
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The gift is sounded.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘nice doggy’ until you can find a rock.” (Will Rogers)

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June 22, 2003: The state of Hawaii finally relents and joins the 20th century regarding animals. Until this date, anyone who wanted to bring to Maui a family pet had to quarantine the animal for 30 to 120 days, depending on the vaccination status. For years, a new process for rabies detection had been in place which validated an animal free or rabies within five days, but the state refused to use the process because of all the civil servants hired to work within the old system. (And yes, that’s a live puppy in the photo.)

EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 22nd
1342: Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End (Shire Reckoning)
1772: Slavery outlawed in England
1808: Zebulon Pike reaches his peak, Pike’s in Colorado
1847: The doughnut is invented
1870: Congress creates the U.S. Department of Justice
1940: France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed
1941: Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
1944: FDR signs G.I. Bill of Rights, benefitting  those who served in WW II
1970: President Richard Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18
1977: Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell begin sserving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up
1981: Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing rock musician John Lennon
2004: A federal judge approves a class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit representing 1.6 million female workers against Wal-Mart 

BORN ON THIS DAY - June 22nd
1757: George Vancouver, explorer/surveyor
1856: H Rider Haggard, author
1858: Giacomo Puccini, operatic composer
1887: Julian Huxley, biologist/philosopher
1898: Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist
1906: Billy Wilder, movie director
1907: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American aviator/author
1909: Michael Todd, producer
1921: Joseph Papp, stage producer/director
1922: Bill Blass, fashion designer
1928: Orson Bean, comedian
1933: Dianne Feinstein, (Mayor-D-SF, US Senator)
1936: Kris Kristofferson, singer/actor
1941: Ed Bradley, CBS news correspondent
1947: Don Henley, drummer/singer
1948: Todd Rundgren, rock singer
1949: Lindsay Wagner, actress
1949: Meryl Streep, actress
1954: Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor
1964: Amy Brenneman, actress
1964: Dan Brown, author

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Sunny: La
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Tulait: Very bright
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Unsavory is the soup made of little chickens.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Men trust their ears less than their eyes.” (Herodocuts)

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June 21, 1998: The “Big Mo,” the USS Missouri, the famed World War II battleship noted most, perhaps, for being the deck on which Japan’s formal surrender was signed by the Japanese government, comes to Hawaii to rest. While it passes Kalaupapa, the peninsula on which the Hanson’s Disease (leprosy) sufferers reside, the ship stops, and dips its flag in salute.

BORN ON THIS DAY - June 21st
1732: Martha Washington, the first first lady
1892: Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian
1903: Al Hirschfeld, cartoonist
1905: Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher/Nobel writer
1912: Mary McCarthy, novelist
1922: Judy Holliday, comedienne/actress
1925: Maureen Stapleton, actress
1927: Carl Stokes, (Cleve-Mayor)
1931: Margaret Heckler, U.S. Secy of Health & Human Services
1931: Olympia Dukakis, actress
1944: Ray Davies, singer/guitarist
1947: Meredith Baxter, actress
1965: Larry Wachowski, filmmaker
1982: Prince William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor of Wales

EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 21st
1633: Galileo Galilei is forced by the Inquisition to “abjure, curse, and detest” his Copernican heliocentric views (never rescinded)
1684: Massachusetts Bay Colony’s charter is revoked
1768: First U.S. Bachelor of Medicine degree is bestowed on Dr. John Archer
1788: The U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire becomes the 9th state to ratify it
1917: The Hawaiian Red Cross is founded
1945: Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to the U.S. during WW II
1948: First stored computer program is run, on the Manchester Mark I (England) (Frank Turing made the machine)
1964: Three civil rights workers (Michael H Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney) disappear after release from a Mississippi jail (3 days later, their burnt-out car was found; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later; eight members of the Ku Klux Klan went to prison on federal conspiracy charges; none served more than six years)
1977: Former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman enters prison
1985 Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
1989: The Supreme Court rules that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.
2005: Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, iss found guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., 41 years to the day earlier. (He is serving a 60-year prison sentence. 

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1665: English rename New Amsterdam to New York after the Dutch leave
1776: Virginia is the first state to adopt the Bill of Rights
1792: George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC
1838: Iowa becomes a territory
1944: The first V-1 is fired at London in WWII
1965: The Beatles are awarded the MBE
1967: Israel wins the Six Day War
1980: Mount St. Helens erupts for a third time
1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home
1997 Major league baseball began interleague play.

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