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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastDisobedience Day
Day 185 of 2008
181 days left in this year


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)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing Maui
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — You Look Nice Today
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — John Cusack in MoveOn New Video


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.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 3rd
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.

BORN ON THIS DAY — July 3rd
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

A Disaster of Peaceniks

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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastUFO Day
Day 184 of 2008
182 days left in this year


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)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing Maui
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — You Look Nice Today
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — John Cusack in MoveOn New Video

July 2nd, 1968: Maui is nearly destroyed, and everything we now hold dear about this island is made nearly extinct, by an overwhelming invasion. Or, at least the nutjob of a mayor thought so. Elmer Cravalho says, “the presence of hippies on Maui is causing more unrest in the community than any event since World War II.” The mayor estimates the number of hippies on the island at 100.
World War II…Hippies. World War II..Hippies. Yeah, they come out about equal on my scale, too. Oh wait, it’s unfair. There’s a finger on one side of the scale. Let me give that finger to Mr. Cravalho.
Maui Curmudgen

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 2nd
1832: Native American Black Hawk is defeated in Iowa
1881: President Garfield is shot in Washington DC by Charles J Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker (Garfield dies in September)
1890 Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act
1937: Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator
1947: An object crashes near Roswell, New Mexico that the US Army Air Force later insists is a weather balloon (but eyewitness accounts give rise to speculation it may be an alien spacecraft)
1961: Author Ernest Hemingway, 61, shoots himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho
1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law a sweeping civil rights bill
1971: Oregon enacts the first state litter law
1976: North & South Vietnam are formally reunified
1976: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual punishment
1986: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in two rulings
2002: American Steve Fossett returns to western Australia to become the first person to fly a balloon solo around the world
2007: President George W. Bush commutes the sentence of former aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, sparing him from a two-and-half-year prison term in the CIA leak case.
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 2nd
1894: Walter Brennan, actor
1908: Thurgood Marshall, first black Supreme Court justice
1925: Medgar Evers, African-American rights leader
1925: Patrice Lumumba, revolutionary
1929: Imelda Marcos, former Phillipine first lady
1949: Larry David, writer-director
1952: Linda M Godwin, PhD/astronaut
1956: Jeffrey Cooper, guitarist
1964: Jose Canseco, baseball player
1986: Lindsay Lohan, New York City, actress

Haleakala Park Dedicated

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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastCanada Day
Day 183 of 2008
183 days left in this year


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)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing Maui
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — You Look Nice Today
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — John Cusack in MoveOn New Video


Haleakala National Park, Maui Hawaii

~ 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

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 1st
1776: The first vote is held on the Declaration of Independence
1795: John Rutledge becomes the 2nd Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
1847: The first U.S. postage stamps go on sale (5¢ Franklin & 10¢ Washington-NYC)
1867: Canada becomes a self-governing dominion of Great Britain
1898: Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American war
1943: Automatic withholding of Federal taxes from paychecks begins in the U.S.
1971: The Golden Gate Bridge is finally fully paid for
2000: Vermont’s Civil Unions Law goes into effect
2004: Saddam Hussein made a defiant first public appearance in an Iraqi court
2005: Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice, announced her retirement.
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 1st
1646: Gottfried W Leibnitz, mathematician-philosopher
1804: George Sand, Romantic novelist
1853: Cecil John Rhodes, South African politician, diamond merchant
1899: Charles Laughton, actor
1902: Billy Wyler, director
1908: Estee Lauder, CEO
1912: David Brower, environmentalist/president Sierra Club
1941: Twyla Tharp, choreographer
1942: Genevieve Bujold, actress
1942: Karen Black, actress
1945: Deborah Harry, rocker
1946: Ron Silver, actor
1952: Dan Aykroyd, comedian/actor
1961: Princess Diana of Wales
1967: Pamela Anderson, actress

An Interesting First

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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastMeteor Day
Day 182 of 2008
184 days left in this year


HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ha’a: Dance
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Kukim long paia: Barbecue
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Be careful lest you be struck by the voice.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.” (Oprah Winfrey)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing Maui
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — You Look Nice Today
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — John Cusack in MoveOn New Video

Quantas AirJune 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.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — June 30th
1894: Korea declares independence from China and asks for Japanese aid
1914: Mahatma Gandhi’s is arrested for the first time in a campaign for Indian equal rights in South Africa
1929: Bobby Jones wins golf’s U.S. Open
1936: 40-hour work week law is approved in the U.S.
1948: The transistor is first demonstrated (Murray Hill NJ)
1950: President Truman orders U.S. troops into Korea
1971: The 26th Amendment to the Constitution, lowering the minimum voting age to 18, is ratified
2001: Doctors implant a dual-purpose pacemaker in Vice President Dick Cheney’s chest.
2004: The international Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn’s orbit after a nearly seven-year journey.
2005: Spain legalized gay marriage
BORN ON THIS DAY — June 30th
1909: Juan Bosch, poet/pres of the Dominican Republic
1917: Buddy Rich, drummer/orchestra leader
1917: Lena Horne, singer
1918: Susan Hayward, actress
1934: Harry Blackstone Jr, magician
1936: Nancy Dussault, actress
1951: Stanley Clarke, bass
1951: Stephen S Oswald, astronaut
1962: Julianne Regan, rock musician
1953: Hal Lindes, rock musician (Dire Straits)
1966: Mike Tyson, boxer
1969: Vincent D’Onofrio, actor
1962: Deirdre Lovejoy, actress (”The Wire”)

IZ - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastForgiveness  Day
Day 178 of 2008
188 days left in this year


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)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Naomi Klein’s Website
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — I’m Voting Republican
NETCASTS OF THE WEEK — Naomi Klein Audio | Gore Vidal’s Article of Impeachment
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Hawaii Canines

IZ - Over the RainbowJune 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

Deadly Mt. Haleakala

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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastSwim Day
Day 176 of 2008
190 days left in this year


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)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Naomi Klein’s Website
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — I’m Voting Republican
NETCASTS OF THE WEEK — Naomi Klein Audio | Gore Vidal’s Article of Impeachment
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Hawaii Canines

WWII era plane

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

Rover Comes Home Early

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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastDog to Work Day
Day 174 of 2008
192 days left in this year


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)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Naomi Klein’s Website
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — I’m Voting Republican
NETCASTS OF THE WEEK — Naomi Klein Audio | Gore Vidal’s Article of Impeachment
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Hawaii Canines

Pet ThisJune 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

Kalaupapa Saluted

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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastVinegar Day
Day 173 of 2008
193 days left in this year


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)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — All World Clock
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — I’m Voting Republican
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Podango’s Apple Phone Show
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — The Hunger Site

USS MissouriJune 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. 

Miscegenation Outlawed

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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastLoving Day
Day 164 of 2008
202 days left in this year


HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Aloha: Love
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Laikim: Love
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Love is like a chief; the best prize to hold fast to.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Love either finds equality, or makes it.” (John Dryden)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — All World Clock
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — MSNBC - Meet the Press
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Podango’s Apple Phone Show
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — The Hunger Site

Mildred & Richard LovingJune 12th, 1967: LOVING DAY - Richard and Mildred Loving win their Supreme Court case supporting the legality of their interacial marriage. The court voted unanimously to overturn the conviction of the Lovings, a young interracial couple, for being married in the state of Virginia. This decision struck down the anti-miscegenation laws — written to prevent the mixing of the races — that were on the books until 1967 in more than a dozen states, including Virginia.  Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama, born in 1961,  is the product of an interracial marriage. Read NPR story

EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 12th
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.

BORN ON THIS DAY - June 12th
1519: Cosmos de Medici, art patron
1915: David Rockefeller, banker
1929: Anne Frank, diarist/Nazi victim
1930: Barbara Harris, famous African
1932: Jim Nabors actor/singer
1932: Rona Jaffe, novelist
1941: Chick Corea, jazz musician
1953: Grace Jones,
1952: Junior Brown, country musician
1958: Meredith Brooks, singer
1959 John Linnell, rock musician (They Might Be Giants)
1967: Frances O’Connor, actress
1979: Robyn, singer

King Kamehameha Day

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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastNational Hug Day
Day 163 of 2008
203 days left in this year


HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Puliki: Hug
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Man bilong pait: Warrior
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “When one learns to be a warrior, one must also learn to run.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Tyranny is the wrechedest form of government and the rule of a king the happiest.” (Plato)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — All World Clock
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — MSNBC - Meet the Press
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Podango’s Apple Phone Show
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — The Hunger Site

June 11th, 2008: KING KAMEHAMEHA DAY is state holiday in Hawaii celebrating the birth of King Kamehameha I, who was born in 1737 or 1758 at Kokoiki in the Kohala district of the Big Island of Hawai’i.  In 1790, after attaining control of the of the Big Island, he successfully invaded the Islands of Maui, Lana’i, and Moloka’i. By 1810, he had unified all the inhabited islands of Hawai’i under his rule with the help of European arms.

As king, he encouraged trade and peaceful activities, and  presided over the opening of Hawai’i to the rest of the world. On May 8, 1819, Kamehameha the Great died at Kailua in the district of Kona on his home Island. His remains were hidden with such secrecy, according to ancient custom, that “only the stars know his final resting place.” Wikipedia listing | Big Island Celebration

Today thousands of people will gather on the northern tip of the Big Island of Hawaii to honor King Kamehameha I at his birthplace in North Kohala.  In 1795 Kamehameha united the Hawaiian Islands with the help of European arms. 

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