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APRIL 7


This photo of the year-old Honolulu Academy of Arts ran in the April 7, 1928, issue of The Advertiser. A total of 56,371 people visited the art academy during its first year, the paper reported.

1899: Honolulu is to have another "skyscraping" office building, reports The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. It will be five stories high on the Stangenwald property on Merchant Street, the newspaper reports.

1900: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports on a strike by 2,000 Japanese workers at the Pioneer and Olowalu plantations after a heavy piece of machinery falls, killing three workers.

1911: A ship captain is arrested for "aiding and abetting" the illegal recruiting of plantation labor in Hawai'i. Mainland recruiters were trying to hire labor in Hawai'i despite a law here that made it illegal.

1924: More than 500 Filipino strikers and their families are evicted from their Kahuku plantation homes and taken to Honolulu by train.

1926: Alexander & Baldwin Ltd. announces it has purchased from the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. the lot at the northwest corner of Bishop and Queen streets, which gives it the ownership of the entire half-block facing Bishop Street, from Queen to Merchant Street. The company commissioned architect C.W. Dickey to plan a modern office building. A&B paid $125,000 for the lot.

1936: The Honolulu Board of Supervisors passes an ordinance requiring employers to provide all female employees with chairs and to permit them to use the chairs when not actually engaged in work.

1940: Mauna Loa erupts.

1956: Labor lawyer Harriet Bouslog is suspended by the federal court one day after she was suspended by the Hawai'i Supreme Court. One of the reasons given for the suspension was a comment she made during the 1952-53 Smith Act trial here that the Hawai'i 7 could not get a fair trial in federal court.

1957: An Air Force B47 jet bomber that was at least 10 miles off the normal approach pattern for a Hickam landing slams into the Wai'anae range at 300 mph and explodes. The four-man crew is killed.

1961: Author James Michener tells the New York Post he and his nisei wife met with more discrimination in Hawai'i than in Pennsylvania, The Advertiser reports. That is why he left the Islands, Michener says. He alludes to restrictive covenants and country club discrimination.

1962: President Kennedy invokes the Taft-Hartley act in the three-week-old West Coast shipping strike, which has led to shortages in the Islands, and sets up a board of inquiry.

1968: Racial unrest eases in some cities but new violence is reported in other cities on what is a national day of mourning for slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. It was the first time a national day of mourning had been declared for someone not connected with the government. President Johnson orders federal troops to Baltimore and surveys the devastation in Washington, D.C., by helicopter.

2002: The Hawaiian Humane Society calls off its search for the dog left on board a crippled Indonesian tanker.


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