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Post #807462 by MadDogMike on Wed, Jan 18, 2023 11:43 AM

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Here's my latest list, 351 entries

1-Jan 1962 Samoan Independence Day
1-Jan New Year's Day
1-Jan National Hangover Day
2-Jan 1888 Drink straw patented
2-Jan 1990 Alan Hale dies
3-Jan 2002 Juan Esquivel dies
9-Jan 1924 Marvin Chin born
9-Jan 1935 Bob Denver born
12-Jan 2000 Tiki Central founded
13-Jan 1950 Kon Tiki movie released
15-Jan 1979 Ralph Tyree dies
15-Jan 2022 Lost Lake Chicago closes
16-Jan 1914 Pete Wimberly born
16-Jan 2014 Russell Johns dies
17-Jan Hot Buttered Rum Day
18-Jan 1778 Capt James Cook arrives in Hawaii
20-Jan 1918 Juan Esquivel born
21-Jan 1998 Jack Lord dies
22-Jan 1968 Duke Kahanamoku dies
30-Jan 1962 Kon Tiki Tucson opens
1-Feb 1933 Arthur Lyman born
1-Feb National Pisco Sour Day (1st Sat Feb)
2-Feb 1917 Eldon Davis born
4-Feb 2017 Trader Vic's Beverly Hills closes
5-Feb 1908 Moon Lueg born
5-Feb 2019 Tiki Tango opens, Atlanta
6-Feb 1985 Stephen Crane dies
6-Feb Waitangi Day (New Zealand)
7-Feb 1916 Stephen Crane born
7-Feb 1953 Edgar Leeteg dies
8-Feb 1961 Ports O'Call Long Beach opens
11-Feb 1934 Tina Louise born
11-Feb 2021 Bill Sapp dies
12-Feb 1964 Charles McKirahan Sr dies
14-Feb 1779 Death of Capt James Cook
18-Feb 2021 Ben Wilson dies
20-Feb 1703 Mount Gay Distillery Founded
20-Feb 1908 Leon Lontoc born
20-Feb 1918 Phil Moore born
20-Feb 1959 The Tahitian Studio City opens
20-Feb 1961 Kahiki opens
21-Feb 1931 Hangover helper Alka Seltzer introduced
21-Feb 1953 Waikiki restaurant Minneapolis opens
22-Feb 1907 Ernest Gantt born
22-Feb 2008 Jack Thornton dies
23-Feb 2004 Joe Scialom dies
24-Feb 2002 Arthur Lyman dies
24-Feb 2016 Pagan Island San Francisco opens
24-Feb World Bartender Day
25-Feb 1913 Jim Backus born
27-Feb National Kahlua Day
28-Feb 2014 Lei Low Houston opens
2-Mar 1953 Don the Beachcomber Palm Springs opens
2-Mar 2005 Martin Denny dies
4-Mar 1964 Trade Winds Oxnard opens
4-Mar 1995 eden ahbez dies
4-Mar 2012 Frank Walls dies
4-Mar 2017 Reef Palm Springs opens
5-Mar Missionary Day (French Polynesia)
5-Mar National Absinthe Day
6-Mar 1958 Molokai Bar at Mai Kai opens
8-Mar 1921 Alan Hale born
8-Mar 2011 Herb Kane dies
8-Mar 2019 The Bamboo Club Long Beach opens
13-Mar 1919 Wesley Herron born
14-Mar 1922 Les Baxter born
14-Mar 1935 Sandy Warner born
17-Mar 1967 Disneyland Pirates of the Caribbean opens
19-Mar 1934 Havana Club Introduced
19-Mar 1958 "South Pacific" movie premiers
20-Mar 1919 Charles McKirahan born
21-Mar 1963 Tropics Motel Palm Springs opens
24-Mar National Cocktail Day
26-Mar 1957 The Traders Chicago opens
26-Mar Prince Kalanianaole Day (Hawaii)
27-Mar 1961 Mc Magoo goes to Hawaii
28-Mar 1903 Bud Bachtold born
28-Mar 1928 George Nakashima born
1-Apr Bacardi 151 wins Gold Medal (April Fools)
2-Apr 1963 Last episode of "Hawaiian Eye" airs
3-Apr 2019 Royal Hawaiian Laguna Beach Reopens
4-Apr 1989 Robert Thornton dies
5-Apr 1722 Capt Jacob Roggeveen arrives in Easter Island
5-Apr 1980 Final "Hawaii Five-0" airs
6-Apr 1965 He Ke Lau Chicopee opens
6-Apr 2018 He Ke Lau Chicopee closes
10-Apr 1911 Martin Denny born
10-Apr 1962 Mai Kai Theater Livonia MI opens
10-Apr 1991 Natalie Schafer, Gilligan's "Mrs Howell" dies
12-Apr 2019 First AZ Tiki Oasis
13-Apr 1904 Edgar Leeteg born
13-Apr 1958 Trader Vic's NY Savoy opens
13-Apr 2017 TikiCat Kansas City opens
14-Apr 1913 Lewis VanDercar born
14-Apr 1995 Sandy Warner dies
14-Apr 2007 Don ho dies
15-Apr 1908 eden ahbez born
15-Apr 2011 First Mojave Oasis
15-Apr 2018 Don the Beachcomber Huntington Beach closes
17-Apr 1967 Final "Gilligan's Island" airs
18-Apr 2002 Thor Heyerdahl dies
20-Apr 1919 Frank Walls born
20-Apr National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day
21-Apr 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair opens
22-Apr 2006 Forbidden Island Alameda opens
22-Apr 2011 Eldon Davis dies
26-Apr 1906 Bobby Butago born
28-Apr 1947 Kon Tiki sails from Peru
28-Apr 1961 Tiki Ti opens
29-Apr 1959 Hilo Hut Palm Springs opens
30-Apr 2021 Hugman's Oasis San Antonio opens
1-May 1940 Don the Beachcomber Chicago opens
1-May Lei Day (Hawaii)
1-May National Luau Month
2-May 1929 Jack Thornton born
2-May International Scurvy Awareness Day
4-May 1911 Francis Cabang born
5-May 1949 Pago Pago Tucson opens
6-May 1966 First Official Aloha Friday
8-May 1903 Paul Gauguin dies
9-May 1886 Facundo Bacardi dies
9-May 1930 Leland Henry born
9-May 2008 First Tiki Caliente Palm Springs
13-May 1942 Skipper Kent's Zombie Village opens
13-May 2015 Robert Drasnin dies
13-May World Cocktail Day
15-May Straw Hat Day
16-May 1994 Milan Guanko dies
20-May 1959 Lanai San Mateo opens
21-May 1963 Hawaiian Luau Fontainbleau Hotel opens New Orleans
26-May 1937 Don the Beachcomber Hollywood opens
26-May Lamprey Appreciation Day
1-Jun 1984 Moon Lueg dies
4-Jun 1862 Tonga Emancipation
4-Jun 2017 Wesley Herron dies
6-Jun 1925 William Westenhaver born
7-Jun 1848 Paul Gauguin born
7-Jun 1989 Ernest Gantt dies
7-Jun 2015 Moai barge sunk, Deerfield Beach, Florida
8-Jun 2018 Lost Lake Chicago opens
8-Jun National "Name Your Poison" Day
9-Jun 1957 Dan Blanding dies
9-Jun National Gin Day
11-Jun Kamehameha Day (Hawaii)
14-Jun 1928 Bill Sapp born
14-Jun 1959 The Grass Shack burns down
14-Jun National Bourbon Day
15-Jun 1941 Tropics Detroit opens
15-Jun 1971 Kon Tiki Waikiki opens
15-Jun 1990 George Nakashima dies
15-Jun 2022 Kanaloa Houston closes
17-Jun 1960 Clifton's Pacific Seas closes
17-Jun 2022 Leroy Schmaltz dies
18-Jun 1906 Milan Guanko born
18-Jun 2022 Tiki Tango Atlanta closes
19-Jun 1910 Joe Scialom born
20-Jun 1960 Ren Clark's Polynesian Village opens
21-Jun 1928 Herb Kane born
21-Jun Summer Solstice
22-Jun 2020 Tarantula Tiki Ft Worth opens
23-Jun 1928 August Holland born
23-Jun 1960 Samoa restaurant Cocoa Beach opens
23-Jun 1963 Enchanted Tiki Room opens
24-Jun 1961 Royal Tahitian Ontario opens
25-Jun 1956 Oceanic Arts opens
27-Jun 1969 Tur Maikai Kalamazoo opens
27-Jun National Pineapple Day
29-Jun 1969 The Hawaiian restaurant Long Beach closes
30-Jun National Mai Tai Day
3-Jul 1935 "Hawaii Calls" radio show first broadcast
3-Jul 1962 Mainlander restaurant St Louis opens
3-Jul 1989 Jim Backus dies
4-Jul 1958 Islands Phoenix opens
4-Jul Independence Day US
5-Jul 1937 Spam production begins
7-Jul 1929 Ben Wilson born
10-Jul 1961 Pub Tiki Philadelphia open s 10-Jul National Pina Colada Day
11-Jul 1961 Tahitian Village Downey opens
11-Jul National Mojito Day
11-Jul World Rum Day
13-Jul 1961 Kona Kai Philadelphia opens
13-Jul 1970 Bud Bachtold dies
14-Jul 2018 Four Kahunas Arlington opens
14-Jul National Grand Marnier Day
15-Jul 1958 Cinerama "South Seas Adventure" premiers
15-Jul 1965 Tahiti Lounge at the Tiki Motor Inn Lake George NY opens
15-Jul 1966 Hop Louie's Latitude 20 Torrence opens
15-Jul Orange Chicken Day
19-Jul 1957 Christian's Hut Honolulu opens
19-Jul 2002 First Hukilau Atlanta
19-Jul National Daiquiri Day
22-Jul National Mango Day
23-Jul 1959 Tiki Jo restaurant Santa Monica opens
25-Jul 1953 Beverly Hills Luau opens
28-Jul 1955 The Hawaiian resturant Long Beach opens
29-Jul 1960 Ports O'Call Dallas opens
31-Jul 1970 Black Tot Day
31-Jul 2013 Three Dots and a Dash Chicago opens
31-Jul 2022 Royal Hawaiian Laguna Beach closes
4-Aug 1965 Cook Islands become self governing
6-Aug 1962 Kon Tiki Ports Chicago opens
7-Aug 1947 Kon Tiki arrives Tuamotu Islands
8-Aug 1958 The Reef restaurant Long Beach opens
11-Aug 1955 Trader Vic's Beverly Hills Hilton opens
12-Aug 1907 Mariano Licudine born
12-Aug 1921 Wallace Turnbow born
12-Aug 1967 Mauna Loa Detroit open
13-Aug 1930 Don Ho born
15-Aug 1945 VJ Day
16-Aug 1963 Benny Chan's Polynesian Salt Lake City open
16-Aug National Rum Day
17-Aug 1877 Bill McCoy born
17-Aug National Thrift Store Day
18-Aug 2001 First Tiki Oasis Palm Springs
18-Aug International Mermaid Day
19-Aug 1933 Debra Paget born
21-Aug 1959 Hawaiian statehood
22-Aug 1950 Kowloon opens Saugus MA
22-Aug 1965 Trader Vic's NY Plaza opens
23-Aug 1965 Kon Tiki Ports Cincinnati opens
24-Aug 1890 Duke Kahanamoku born
25-Aug 1957 Polynesian Restaurant Torrance opens
25-Aug 2000 Kahiki Columbus OH closes
27-Aug 1955 Sven Kristen born
29-Aug 2012 Hale Pele Portland opens
29-Aug Chop Suey Day
30-Aug Trader Vic's Mai Tai Day
1-Sep 2022 The Lost Inferno San Clemente opens
1-Sep National Papaya Month
2-Sep 2005 Bob Denver dies
2-Sep World Coconut Day
3-Sep 2016 False Idol San Diego opens
4-Sep 2012 Wayne Coombs dies
4-Sep National Macadamia Nut Day
8-Sep 1865 Girolamo Luxardo dies
11-Sep 2018 Inferno Room Indianapolis opens
12-Sep 1981 Eli Hedley dies
13-Sep 1922 Yma Sumac born
16-Sep 1975 Papua New Guinea Independence Day
18-Sep 1945 Tonga Room opens
18-Sep 2009 First Luau at the Lake, Lake George NY
19-Sep International Talk Like a Pirate Day
20-Sep 1968 First "Hawaii Five-0"
20-Sep National Rum Punch Day
22-Sep 1972 Brady Bunch "Cursed Tiki" first airs
22-Sep 2015 Leland Henry dies
26-Sep 1918 Harry Yee born
26-Sep 1959 Kon Tiki Portland opens
26-Sep 1964 First "Gilligan's Island" airs
26-Sep 1967 "I Dream of Jeannie" travels to Hawaii
27-Sep 1966 Trader Vic's St Paul opens
29-Sep 1784 Girolamo Luxardo born
29-Sep 1972 Brady Bunch "Pass the Tabu" first airs
30-Sep 1999 Ray Buhen dies
1-Oct 1971 Disney's Polynesian Village Resort opens
1-Oct 1996 Bobby Butago dies
4-Oct 2022 Tatsu Tiki-ya Austin opens
5-Oct 1962 Mauna Loa Hollywood opens
5-Oct 1977 Webley Edwards dies
6-Oct 1914 Thor Heyerdahl born
6-Oct 1972 Brady Bunch "The Tiki Caves" first airs
7-Oct 1959 First episode of "Hawaiian Eye"
8-Oct Lotu-a-Tamaiti (Samoa)
10-Oct 1914 Louis Armet born
10-Oct 1966 Gilligan's Island "Voodoo" first airs
10-Oct National Vodka Day
10-Oct Fiji Day
11-Oct 1965 Explorer East Syracuse opens
11-Oct 1981 Louis Armet dies
11-Oct 1984 Trader Vic dies
12-Oct 1870 Dr Johann Siegert dies
12-Oct 1963 Polynesian Cultural Center opens
12-Oct 2018 Omni Hut closes, Smyrna TN
14-Oct 1814 Facundo Bacardi born
16-Oct National Liqueur Day
17-Oct 1970 Scooby Doo "A Tiki Scare is no Fair" first airs
18-Oct 1938 Dawn Wells born
19-Oct 1911 George Cates born
23-Oct 2016 Jungle Bird opens, Sacramento
24-Oct 1963 Bali Hai Northport NY opens
26-Oct 1962 Hawaiian Room Emerson Hotel opens
28-Oct 1835 Maori Declaration of Independence
28-Oct 1949 Wayne Coombs born
31-Oct 1903 Eli Hedley born
1-Nov 2008 Yma Sumac dies
5-Nov 1900 Natalie Schafer, Gilligan's "Mrs Howell" born
6-Nov 1956 Kon Tiki Palm Springs opens
7-Nov 1894 Don Blanding born
7-Nov 2016 The Grass Skirt San Diego opens
8-Nov 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty movie released
9-Nov 1909 Ray Buhen born
10-Nov 1924 Russell Johns, Gilligan's "Professor" born
11-Nov 1902 Webley Edwards born
11-Nov Veteran's Day
12-Nov 2016 New Clifton's Pacific Seas opens
14-Nov 1924 William Krisel born
15-Nov 2018 Kanaloa Houston opens
17-Nov 1927 Robert Drasnin born
17-Nov 1934 Hinky Dinks opens
17-Nov 1961 Aloha Jhoe's Palm Springs opens
18-Nov 1954 Tropics, Dayton OH opens
18-Nov 1960 Mr Magoo shipwrecked in "Robinson Crusoe Magoo"
19-Nov 1961 Michael Rockerfeller eaten in PNG
20-Nov 1905 Frank Bowers born
21-Nov 1961 Tahitian Pasadena opens
21-Nov 1996 Andres Bumatay dies
22-Nov 1796 Dr Johann Siegert born
23-Nov 1923 Bill McCoy arrested for Prohibition rum running
24-Nov 1980 Mariano Licudine dies
24-Nov 2021 Oceanic Arts Whittier closes
27-Nov 1935 The Tropics Beverly Hills opens
1-Dec 1962 Don the Beachcomber Las Vegas opens
2-Dec 1953 Kalua Room Windsor Hotel Seattle opens
2-Dec 1962 Marina Lanai Apts Seal Beach open
4-Dec 2008 Frankie's Las Vegas opens
4-Dec King Tupou I Day (Tonga)
5-Dec 1933 Repeal Day
5-Dec 1933 Don's Beachcomber Café opens in Hollywood
5-Dec 1963 Trader Vic's St Louis opens
5-Dec 1964 Gilligan's "Waiting for Watubi" Tiki episode first airs
7-Dec 1913 Charles Ward dies
7-Dec 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor
7-Dec 2022 Harry Yee dies
8-Dec 2009 Smuggler's Cove San Francisco opens
10-Dec 1902 Victor Bergeron born
10-Dec 1969 Trader Vic's Detroit opens
11-Dec 1964 Frank Bowers dies
13-Dec 1963 Lin Fa Mai Tai Room Terra Linda CA opens
13-Dec National Bartender Day (1st Friday December)
14-Dec 2016 William Westenhaver dies
14-Dec 2019 Restoration of Tiki Bob San Francisco
15-Dec 1988 Lewis VanDercar dies
18-Dec 1931 Andres Bumatay born
18-Dec 1940 Trader Vic Waikiki opens
18-Dec National Roast Pig Day
21-Dec Winter Solstice
24-Dec 1959 South Pacific Hallandale opens
24-Dec Christmas Eve
25-Dec 1733 Molasses Act alters rum history
25-Dec Christmas
26-Dec 1939 Monte Proser's Beachcomber NY opens
28-Dec 1944 Club Zombie Cleveland opens
28-Dec 1956 Mai Kai opens
29-Dec 1974 Beatles break up Disney Polynesian Village
30-Dec 1920 Jack Lord born
30-Dec 1948 Bill McCoy dies
30-Dec 1995 Pete Wemberly dies
31-Dec 1954 Skipper Kent's Polynesian Village opens
31-Dec 2022 Trader Vic's London closes
31-Dec New Year's Eve

[ Edited by MadDogMike on 2023-01-18 11:53:58 ]