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The history of today

APRIL 20


Auctioneer James F. Morgan ran an ad for an auction of horses in the April 20, 1895, Pacific Commercial Advertiser.

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1926: Earthquakes shake Kilauea, causing enormous avalanches in Halema'uma'u. Mauna Loa is still erupting, with fountaining but no flow toward either Ka'u or Kona.

1935: American Security Bank, reorganized from the old Chinese-American bank, opens for business.

1951: President Truman names Oren E. Long governor of Hawai'i.

1955: Traffic flows over the newly completed section of the Nu'uanu Pali highway for the first time. The new four-lane divided highway extends from Reservoir No. 4 to the summit.

1988: The U.S. Senate approves legislation that officially apologizes to Japanese-Americans who were taken from their homes and put into "relocation camps" during World War II. The bill, similar to one passed earlier by the House, also authorized reparation payments of $20,000 each to internees who were still alive. Sen. Spark Matsunaga, D-Hawai'i, one of the co-sponsors of the legislation, was presiding over the Senate at the time of the vote at the request of his colleagues.

1999: Two boys kill 12 other students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., and then take their own lives.

2002: A Coast Guard air crew on an environmental mission spots the dog left on board a drifting crippled Indonesian tanker. The crew reported the dog to be alive and apparently very healthy.


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