July 29, 2008
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 Cheese Purchase Day
Day 211 of 2008
155 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Kopa‘a: Sugar
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Liklik: Little
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “Do not believe all that is told you.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.” (Alexis de Tocqueville)
July 29th, 1835: The first sugar plantation in Hawaii begins production. Sugar takes on everincreasing economic importance, requiring a large plantation labor population that cannot be provided by the native population, seriously depleted by introduced diseases.
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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”
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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
July 28, 2008
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Milk Chocolate Day
Day 210 of 2008
156 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Kenekoa: Senator
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Kirapim: Begin
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “The goodness of the taro is judged by the young plant it produces.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “The superior man is modest in his speech but excels in his actions.” (Confucius)
July 28th, 1959: Hawaii’s first U.S. election sends the first Asian-Americans to Congress in Washington, DC. Hiram L. Fong is elected to the Senate, and Daniel K. Inouye is elected to the House of Representatives. Inouye was later elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962, and remains a U.S. Senator to this day.
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 28th
1540: King Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, is executed (on the same day, Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard)
1586: Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
1821: Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1868: The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing due process of law, is declared in effect
1943: Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1976: 242,000 people die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) in an 8.2 earthquake
1977: The first oil flows through the Alaska pipeline
1978: The price of gold tops $200 per ounce for first time
2005: The Irish Republican Army renounces the use of violence against British rule in Northern Ireland and said it would disarm.
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BORN ON THIS DAY — July 28th
1844: Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet
1866: Beatrix Potter, English children’s author
1901: Rudy Vallee, singer
1907: Vivian Vance, actress
1909: Malcolm Lowry, novelist
1922: Jacques Piccard, undersea explorer
1941: Michael Mukasey, Attorney General
1943: Bill Bradley, BBall player/ US Sen (D-NJ)
1943: Mike Bloomfield, blues musician
1945: Jim Davis, Garfield cartoonist
1945: Richard Wright, rocker
1946: Linda Kelsey, actress
1947: Sally Struthers, actress
1954: Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela
1972: Elizabeth Berkley, actress
1973: Scott Bloom, actor
July 22, 2008
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Rat Catchers Day
Day 204 of 2008
163 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
‘Iole: Rat
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Rat: Rat
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “A rat eats, then leaves its droppings.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “Of all the tyrants that afflict mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.” (Thomas Paine)
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 22nd
1775: George Washington takes command of the troops
1933: Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 1/2 hours
1934: A man identified as bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater
1967: Jimi Hendrix quits as the opening act of the Monkees’ tour
1983: Dick Smith makes the first solo helicopter flight around the world
1999: The ashes of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, are cast into the sea off Martha’s Vineyard
2003: Months after her prisoner-of-war ordeal, Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Lynch returned home to a hero’s welcome in Elizabeth, W.Va.
2004: The Sept. 11 Commission issues a report saying America’s leaders failed to grasp the gravity of terrorist threats before the 9/11 attacks.
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 22nd
1822: Gregor Mendel, monk/geneticist
1849: Emma Lazarus, poet
1882: Edward Hopper, U.S. painter
1887: Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist
1888: Raymond Chandler, mystery writer
1898: Alexander Calder, sculptor
1898: Stephen Vincent Benet, writer
1908: Amy Vanderbilt, authority on etiquette
1928: Orson Bean, actor/comedian
1932: Oscar de la Renta, designer
1934: Louise Fletcher, actress
1939: Terence Stamp, actor
1941: George Clinton, rocker
1947: Albert Brooks, actor/director
1947: Don Henley, drummer
1955: Willem Dafoe, actor
1964: David Spade, actor/comedian
1964: John Leguizamo, actor
1972: Colin Ferguson, actor
July 20, 2008
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Moon Day
Day 202 of 2008
164 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Mahina: Moon
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Mun: Moon
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “She has a face as bright as the moon.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off.” (Edmund Hillary)
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 20th
1878: The first telephone is introduced in Hawaii
1881: Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn surrendered to federal troops
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”
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
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 20th
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
1978: Charlie Korsmo, actor
July 13, 2008
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Fool’s Paradise Day
Day 195 of 2008
171 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Manu: Bird
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY —
Gris: Ointment
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —
“So the ants will cry for you.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —
“Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then they get elected and prove it.” (P.J.O’Rourke)
TODAY - 3rd Annual Paddle Contest. Maliko Bay to Kahului Harbor, starts at 1:00pm.
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 13th
1957: Molokai finally gets an airport, the last large Hawaiian Island to do so.
1863: Civil War military draft rioting begins in New York City (1,000 people are killed including blacks hanged by mobs)
1865: Horace Greeley advises his readers to “Go west young man” (he meant Michigan)
1917: The vision of the Virgin Mary appears to children of Fatima Portugal
1919: The first lighter-than-air transatlantic flight is completed
1985: “Live Aid”, a 17-hour rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow & Sydney, broadcasts to 152 countries and raises $70 million for the starving people of Africa
22005: Former WorldCom Inc. boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history.
2006: Israel imposes a naval blockade against Lebanon and blasted the Beirut airport and army air bases; Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into Israel.
2007: Former media mogul Conrad Black is convicted in Chicago of swindling the far-flung Hollinger International newspaper empire he once ran out of millions of dollars. (Black is serving a 6-year sentence at a federal prison in Florida.)X
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 13th
1396: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
1928: Bob Crane, actor (Hogan’s Heroes)
1935: Jack Kemp, congressman (Rep-R-NY) former U.S. Secretary of Housing
1940: Patrick Stewart, actor (Capt Picard-Star Trek Next Generation)
1940: Paul Prudhomme, cajun chef
1942: Harrison Ford, actor
1942: Roger McGuinn, rock musician (The Byrds)
1944: Erno Rubik, inventor (Rubik’s cube)
1946: Richard “Cheech” Marin, actor/comedian
1950: Dr. George D “Pinky” Nelson, astronaut
1954: Cameron Crowe, film director
1956: Mark “Animal” Mendoza, rock musician
1963: Bobby Rock, rock drummer
1970: Steven J Brown, guitarist
July 12, 2008
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Pecan Pie Day
Day 194 of 2008
172 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Kukui: Nut
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY —
Traipela: Fat
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —
“Unity is a precious possesion.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —
“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I am thankful I am not a Republican.” (H.L.Mencken)
Obon Dance & Festivals. During the summer months on Maui, the Obon tradition is celebrated at various island Hongwanji missions. This tradition was brought to Hawai’i by Japanese immigrants and has evolved into a social and cultural event as well as the religious custom it was designed as to honor ancestors through an evening of dance, music and merry-making. The dates and times for various festivals follow:
~ July 11 & 12: Paia Mantokuji Soto Mission, on Hana Hwy. 6:30 p.m.
~ July 18 & 19: Kahului Hongwanji Mission, on Puunene Ave. 7 p.m.
~ July 25 & 26: Makawao Hongwanji Mission, on Makawao Ave. 6:30 p.m.
July 12, 1901: Fires that were never explained broke out at Hamakuapoko, and eventually destroyed nearly 300 acres of cane field.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 12th
1543: King Henry VIII marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr
1859: A patent is granted for the paper bag manufacturing machine
1898: The Armistice is signed in the Spanish-American War
1906: Alfred Dreyfus is found innocent in France
1909: Congress approves the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, establishing a federal income tax, and sends it to the states for ratification
1974: Former Nixon aide, John D Ehrlichman, and three “White House Plumbers,” are convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist (part of the Watergate scandal)
1977: The space shuttle Enterprise makes its first free flight test
1982: FEMA promises that survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
2000: New Hampshire Chief Justice David Brock is impeached by the state Legislature, the first such action against an official in the state since 1790
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 12th
-100: (BCE) Julius Caesar, Roman emporer
1817: Henry David Thoreau naturalist/author/pacifist
1864: George Washington Carver, horticulturalist
1884: Amedeo Modigliani, painter/sculptor
1895: Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist
1895: R Buckminster Fuller, author-architect & inventor
1904: Pablo Neruda, Chilean Nobel poet
1908: Milton Berle, comedian
1917: Andrew Wyeth, painter
1937: Bill Cosby, actor/comedian
1943: Christie McVie, rock musician
1948: Richard Simmons, exercise guru
1950: Brian Grazer, movie producer
1951: Cheryl Ladd, actress
1971: Kristi Yamaguchi, figure skater
July 6, 2008
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Fried Chicken Day
Day 188 of 2008
178 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Kalaima: Criminal
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY —
Man nogut: Criminal
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —
“A thief is also a liar.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —
“To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it” (MLK)
43rd U.S. President & War Criminal George W. Bush’s Birthday - 1946
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“There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes,” Antonio Taguba, the retired major general who investigated abuses in Iraq, declares in a powerful new report on American torture from Physicians for Human Rights. “The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”
Read The Truth Commission by Nicholas D. Kristof
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 6th
1535 Sir Thomas More is executed in England for treason.
1785: Congress resolves that U.S. currency is to be named “dollar” & adopts decimal coinage
1798: U.S. law makes aliens “liable to be apprehended, restrained,… & removed as alien enemies”
1923: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
1958: Alaska becomes the 49th state
2001: Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen pleads guilty to 15 criminal counts and agrees to give a full accounting of his spying activities for Moscow
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BORN ON THIS DAY — July 6th
1921: Nancy Davis Reagan, former First Lady
1925: Bill Haley, original rock star
1927: Janet Leigh, actress
1927: Pat Paulsen, comedian/presidential candidate
1931: Della Reese, singer/actress
1937: Gene Chandler, rocker
1937: Ned Beatty, actor
1946: Jamie Wyeth, artist
1946: Sylvester Stallone, actor/director
1951: Geoffrey Rush, actor
1953: Nanci Griffith, country singer
July 4, 2008
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Independence Day
Day 186 of 2008
180 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Ku’i: Boom
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Tumas
: Extremely
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —
“The aerial bulbs appeared.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —
“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.” (John Adams)
EARTH AT APHELION
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 4th
1054: In what will be the most spectacular fireworks ever seen on planet earth, a supernova explodes in earthly skies, to become what we call the Crab Nebula. American Indians, Arabs and Chinese all note it - how could they miss it. A casual viewer could see the explosion during daylight hours for nearly a month, in night skies for nearly two years.
1894: In what is surely not a coincidence, the Republic of Hawaii is formed and Stanford Dole becomes its first president. Yeah, yeah something happened in 1776 too, but given the illustrious quote from John Adams above and how far this country has fallen, I think it might be time to recognize how low we’ve become. I won’t give up the day off though.
– Maui Curmudgeon
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1776: Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Continental Congress: the U.S. declares its independence from Britain
1776: King George III of England writes in his diary: “Nothing of importance happened today”
1832: “America” is first sung publicly
1836: The Wisconsin Territory is formed
1845: Texas Congress votes for annexation to the U.S.
1845: Author Henry Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond, near Concord MA
1862: Lewis Carroll begins inventing “Alice in Wonderland” for Alice Pleasance Liddell
1863: The Battle of Gettysburg ends: the Union is winning the Civil War
1876: The first public exhibition of the electric light in San Francisco
1884: The Statue of Liberty is formally presented to U.S. by France
1942: The first American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
1966: President Lyndon B Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act
1976: “Raid on Entebbe”: Israel commandos rescue 229 Air France passengers and crew
2004: A 20-ton slab of granite, inscribed to honor “the enduring spirit of freedom,” was laid at the World Trade Center site as the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower.
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BORN ON THIS DAY — July 4th
1804: Nathaniel Hawthorne, autho
1807: Giuseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy
1826: Stephen Foster, composer
1872: Calvin Collidge, 30th U.S. president (R)
1885: Louis B Mayer, motion-picture executive
1905: Lionel Trilling, author
1927: Neil Simon, playwright
1928: Gina Lollobrigida, actress
1929: Al Davis, NFL team owner
1946: Ron Kovic, disabled Vietnam vet
1953: Geraldo Rivera, news personality
1963: Matt Malley rock musician
1964: Mark Allen Slaughter, guitarist
July 10, 1945: 
