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Pearl Harbor Day
Day 341 of 2013
12 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — PU’EWA: Surprise
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — KIRAP NOGUD: Surprised
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — Be a person well versed.
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY— “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” - Lenin
TODAY: Vanessa Wolf, MauiNow.com’s Restaurant Reviewer writes that Rita’s Steak and Fish House is Consistently Inconsistent “That stated, the burger, although perfectly prepared, arrived stone cold 45 minutes after we ordered it. The fries? Although delightfully thin and clearly crisp at one point, they were now ice, ice baby. The Fried Calamari ($12.95) suffered from similar “sitting under a heat lamp drowning in their own juices” issues.” Read her complete Review »
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HAWAII NEWS ON THIS DAY
1941: Just before 8 am, 183 Japanese planes attack U.S. aircraft carriers and battleships at Pearl Harbor as well as Hickam Field and other U.S. air bases on O’ahu. A second wave of 170 planes follow, attacking Bellows Field and Ford Island. The assaults lasted about 90 minutes, and when it was over, 2,388 men, women and children had been killed, including 1,177 sailors from the USS Arizona. Among the dead were 49 civilians, many killed by friendly fire as U.S. forces tried desperately to mount a defense.
1962: Kilauea Volcano erupts at 1 a.m. near the Chain of Craters Road, lighting the sky with a reddish hue visible more than 10 miles away.
1972: The U.S. General Services Administration opens bids for the long-delayed Prince Kuhio Federal Building.
1975: On his return from a visit to China, Indonesia and the Philippines, President Ford speaks at the East-West Center and declares a new U.S. “Pacific Doctrine” based on American strength and a stable balance of power in the Pacific.
1981: The Advertiser reports 11 skydivers are confirmed dead in the murky waters of Pearl Harbor, most of them dying in the mangled wreckage of their twin-engine Beechcraft. The skydivers had been scheduled to parachute into Aloha Stadium just before the start of a University of Hawai’i football game on Dec. 5. Before making the jump run, the plane nosed down and spun out of control. One parachutist managed to jump to safety.
1991: President George H.W. Bush visits Hawai’i for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
2010: Julian Assange is arrested in London at the request of Swedish authorities seeking his extradition. He has remained under arrest for a year, with no charges filed.
2011: Ousted Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption.
2012: Singapore Government to Buy Grand Wailea. According to bankruptcy proceedings today in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, the Government of Singapore Investment Corp will buy the Grand Wailea and three other luxury resorts. More »
WORLD EVENTS ON THIS DAY
1787 Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1796 Electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States.
1836 Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.
1842 The New York Philharmonic gave its first concert.
1963 Videotaped instant replay was used for the first time in a live sports telecast during the Army-Navy football game on CBS.
1972 America’s last moon mission was launched as Apollo 17 blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
1982 A U.S. prisoner was executed by injection for the first time, in Huntsville, Texas.
1985 Retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart died at age 70.
1988 An earthquake in northern Armenia claimed an estimated 25,000 lives.
1993 A gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train, killing six people and wounding 17. (Colin Ferguson was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.)
1995 A 746-pound probe from the Galileo spacecraft hurtled into Jupiter’s atmosphere, sending back data to the mothership before it was destroyed.
2001 Taliban forces abandoned their last bastion in Afghanistan, fleeing the southern city of Kandahar.
2002 Iraq denied it had weapons of mass destruction in a declaration to the United Nations.
2004 Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan’s first popularly elected president.
2007 Baseball home run king Barry Bonds pleaded not guilty in San Francisco to charges he’d lied to federal investigators about using performance-enhancing drugs.
2010: Julian Asssang, founder of Wikileaks, is arrested in London and held for extradition to Sweden. He’s remains so for a year, with no charges filed.
2011: Ousted Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption.
BORN ON THIS DAY
1905 Eli Wallach, actor
1932 Ellen Burstyn, ctress
1937 Thad Cochra, U.S. senator, R-Miss.
1947 Johnny Benc, Baseball Hall of Famer
1949, Tom Wait, Rock singer, actor
1952 Susan Collins, U.S. senator, R-Maine
1956 Larry Bird, Basketball Hall of Famer
1966 C. Thomas Howel, Actor
1973 Terrel Owens, football player
1979 Sara Bareilles, Singer
DIED ON THIS DAY
1746 King Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
1747 Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (b. 1670)
1797 Edmund Burke, British philosopher and statesman (b. 1729)
1850 Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)
1880 Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
1932 King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1855)
1938 Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (b. 1870)
1974 Earl Warren, American jurist (b. 1891)
1977 Alice Paul, American suffragist figure (b. 1885)
1992 Eric Sevareid, American reporter (b. 1912)
1996 Melvin Belli, American attorney (b. 1907)
2002 Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
2008: Herbert Hutner, American banker and attorney (b. 1908)
2009: Mark Ritts, American actor (b. 1946)
2010: Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and wife of John Edwards (b. 1949)
2010: Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor (b. 1928)
2011: Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915)
2012: Thomas Cornell, American painter (b. 1937)