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Day 19 of 2014
346 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kulina pohapoha: Popcorn
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Winim kot: Acquitted
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Return to the backbone.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Do not consider any act of kindness insignificant.” - Muhammad
TODAY: County Hosts 3-Day Recycling Event in Hana. The County of Maui Department of Environmental Services Solid Waste Division announced an upcoming metals and electronics recycling event in East Maui. The three-day event will run from Thursday, Feb. 6 to Saturday, Feb. 8, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each day at the H?na Landfill off of H?na Highway and Waikoloa Road. More »
HAWAII EVENTS ON THIS DAY — January 19
1898: The Pali Road connecting Honolulu with Windward Oahu was finished.
1900: The fire set in Chinatown to rid Oahu of Bubonic plague (reported earlier in the Maui Almanac) finally burns itself out, with nearly all of Chinatown destroyed. The plague returned to Hawaii in three years anyway.
1929: Inter-Island Airways Ltd. is formed. Service was to begin with three amphibian planes and a six-day schedule with flights from Honolulu to the Big Island with stops at Moloka’i, Lana’i and Maui as required.
1938: Eighteen U.S. Navy bombers land at Pearl Harbor in what was called the greatest mass flight in the history of naval aviation. It also set a distance record, 2,631 miles in 20 hours and 30 minutes.
1988: Mid Pacific Airlines, the little carrier that for seven years brought low fares and a new level of competition to the inter-island airline market, ends its passenger business.
Island Air’s previously unnamed buyer is Larry Ellison. Larry Ellison, the billionaire owner of the Oracle Corp. who bought most of the island of Lanai at the end of last year, is said to now be buying the interisland airline, Island Air. More »
WORLD EVENTS ON THIS DAY — January 19
1825: Ezra Daggett and his nephew, Thomas Kensett, are granted a patent for food storage in tin cans
1919: A “tidal wave” of molasses, 15 meters high x 25 meters wide, kills dozens of workers (Boston)
1937: Millionaire Howard Hughes sets the transcontinental air record
1966: Indira Gandhi is elected to be India’s 3rd prime minister
1977: President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D’Aquino (Tokyo Rose)
1988: The Beatles are inaugurated into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1989: President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for donating illegal funds to Nixon
2001: President Clinton acknowledges, for the first time, making false statements under oath
2006: An unmanned NASA spacecraft blasts off on a 3 billion-mile journey to Pluto
2010: In a major upset, Republican Scott Brown captured the U.S. Senate seat held by liberal champion Edward Kennedy for nearly half a century as he defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election.
2010: The FBI concluded that Army scientist Bruce Ivins acted alone in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people, and formally closed the case.
2010: In a major upset, Republican Scott Brown captured the U.S. Senate seat held by liberal champion Edward Kennedy for nearly half a century as he defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election.
BORN ON THIS DAY — January 19
570: Mohammed, Islamic prophet
1798: Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder
1807: Robert E Lee, General-in-Chief (Confederacy)
1809: Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, poet/author
1813: Sir Henry Bessemer, English engineer/inventor
1839: Paul Cezanne, Impressionist painter
1859: Alice Eastwood, Toronto, botanist
1877: Charles Coburn, Savannah Georgia, actor
1917: John Raitt, singer/actor
1923: Jean Stapleton, actress
1935: Tippi Hedren, actress
1938: Phil Everly, singer
1942: Shelly Fabares, actress
1943: Janis Joplin, bluesy rock singer
1945: Rod Evans, rocker
1946: Dolly Parton, country singer
11947: Paula Deen, TV chef
1949: Robert Palmer, singer
1954: Katey Sagal, actress
1957: Mickey Virtue, rocker
1956: Paul Rodriguez, comedian
1969: Junior Seau, football player
1971: Shawn Wayans, actor
1982: Jodie Sweetin, Actress (“Full House”)
1992: Shawn Johnson, Gymnast
DIED ON THIS DAY — January 19
1970: Hal March actor (Atomic Kit, Outrage, Yankee Pasha), dies at 49
1988: Ballard Berkeley actor (East meets West), dies at 83
1990: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Indian guru, dies at 58
1991: John Russell actor/writer (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70
1995: Eugene Fuller polymath/linguist, dies at 80
1996: Harold Wolpe sociologist lawyer/South African activist, dies at 70
1997: James Dickey poet/novelist, dies at 84
1998: Carl Perkins singer/songwriter, dies at 65
2000: Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress and inventor (b. 1913)
2006: Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
2008: Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
2008: John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
2010: Jennifer Lyon, American reality television personality (Survivor) (b. 1972)
2012: Sarah Burke, Canadian freestyle skier (b. 1982)
2013: Earl Weaver, American baseball manager (b. 1930)
2013: Marcel Sisniega Campbell, Mexican chess player (b. 1959)