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The history of today

APRIL 4


The Bishop Museum was opened on March 1, 1891, by Charles Reed Bishop in memory of his wife, Bernice Pauahi Bishop. This sketch was in The Pacific Commercial Advertiser on April 4, 1894.

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1890: Hawaiian Pacific Cable Co. reports that the cable between Koko Head and Moloka'i has been successfully completed.

1906: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports that the Board of Immigration has named an envoy to go to the Azores and northern Italy to seek plantation workers.

1932: The Massie-Fortescue murder trial begins. Navy Lt. Thomas Massie; his mother-in-law, Grace Fortescue; and two Navy enlisted men are accused of second-degree murder in the shooting of Joseph Kahahawai, one of five men accused of the rape of Massie's wife, Thalia Massie.

1932: A U.S. Department of Justice report finds no organized crime in Hawai'i but is very critical of the police department, the city and county attorney's office and Oahu Prison administration. The report finds all three departments political in nature and constituting "an invitation to the commission of crime."

1940: Cunard White Star line's Mauretania docks in Honolulu for refueling and provisions. The ship's itinerary was secret but press accounts speculated the ship was headed for either Hong Kong or Australia as a British troop ship. Accounts the next day said the blacked-out ship was speeding toward the South Pacific.

1961: A threatened bus strike is averted when the Public Utilities Commission approves a fare increase and the bus company agrees to rescind a pay cut imposed on drivers.

1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis. Rioting breaks out in several cities.

1974: Demolition begins on the old Civic Auditorium, home to wrestling and roller derby and boxing. Stars of early rock also played there, including Fabian, Chubby Checker, Sandra Dee, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Chuck Berry and Pat Boone.

1975: Eight orphans from South Vietnam and eight orphans from Cambodia transit Honolulu in the first stopover of Operation Babylift. The orphans were bound for the Mainland.


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