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APRIL 14


Matson Navigation will operate big steamers between San Francisco and Honolulu if arrangements can be completed with Honolulu merchants, the April 14, 1906, Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported. Some merchants had interests in fleets of sailing vessels operating between the coast and Hawai'i.

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1865: President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln dies the next day.

1903: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports that Henry M. Whitney, founder in 1856 of The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, is retiring from journalism after 54 years, the last 17 as editor of Planters Monthly.

1910: The Yokohama Specie Bank building at the corner of Bethel and Merchant streets opens. The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported it was elaborately finished and had splendid features new to Hawai'i. The steel desks captured much attention.

1926: Flows from the Mauna Loa eruption become more active and head for Ka'u.

1936: Hawaiian Electric Co. has begun excavating on King Street as part of the company's $250,000 program to move all its overhead wires in the downtown area underground.

1948: The Matsonia, formerly named Malolo, which had been in Hawai'i service for 21 years, sails from Honolulu for the last time. Matson was putting the ship up for sale.

1949: Three sailors are killed and 11 are injured when an explosion rips a gun turret apart on the destroyer USS Hollister, 47 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor.

1963: The ILWU calls a strike against 23 of Hawai'i's 25 union-organized sugar plantations and warns its members to expect a long strike.

1969: Acting University of Hawai'i president Richard Takasaki tells assistant professor Oliver Lee, whose firing has kept the university in turmoil for two years, he will be given tenure when his year of probation is up. Lee accepts and agrees to drop a threatened lawsuit.

1970: The Apollo 13 moon mission is aborted after a power failure cripples the spaceship 200,000 miles from Earth.


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