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The history of today

APRIL 16


The April 16, 1912, Pacific Commercial Advertiser printed its first story of the sinking of the Titanic. The first accounts out of New York underestimated the death toll, which eventually was put at more than 1,500. The Titanic sank the night of April 14-15.

1867: A YMCA is formed in Honolulu.

1906: Bids are opened for the construction of the new Hilo High School and a proposed new schoolhouse at 'Ola'a.

1926: A massive flow from the Mauna Loa eruption crosses the government road at Ho'opuloa and destroys the Catholic church and the home of a fisherman.

1932: Navy Lt. Thomas Massie admits shooting Joseph Kahahawai but tells the jury
he does not remember anything immediately after the shooting. Massie tells the jury that Kahahawai confessed to him that he had raped Massie's wife, Thalia Massie.

1935: Gov. Joseph B. Poindexter signs the Sunday bill, which allows the sale of food and other commodities all day Sunday, even though he said he was personally opposed to it.

1935: A Pan American Clipper departs from San Francisco Bay for the inauguration of commercial air service between the Mainland and Hawai'i. The seaplane left at 3:50 p.m. on its flight to Hawai'i.

1948: The new streetlights along a 5 1/2-mile stretch of Kalaniana'ole Highway from Keala'olu to Hanauma Bay are turned on for the first time.
At the time, it was the largest streetlighting project undertaken by the city.

1951: Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who was relieved of his Far Eastern command by President Truman on April 11, gets a hero's welcome in Honolulu. He accepted Honolulu Mayor John Wilson's invitation to tour the city and was given an honorary degree at the University of Hawai'i. Some 120,000 people turned out to see him on his 24-hour visit to Honolulu.

1963: Gov. John A. Burns declares O'ahu and Kaua'i as disaster areas while flood damage estimates rose to $2.3 million and families pleaded with the state for help.

1963: Hawai'i's three-day-old sugar strike ends.

1974: Benjamin Menor is sworn in as an associate justice of the state Supreme Court. He is the first person of Filipino ancestry to become a Hawai'i Supreme Court justice.


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