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The history of today

APRIL 21


The new Japanese M.E. Church on River Street was to be dedicated soon, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on April 21, 1905.

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1900: James Campbell, retired sugar planter and one of the major landowners in the Islands, dies at the age of 74.

1922: Gov. and Mrs. Wallace R. Farrington officially inaugurate Washington Place as the governor's residence.

1924: Public school buildings in Hawai'i can be used by non-citizens for foreign language instruction during hours when the facilities are not in use as public schools, the superintendent of education rules.

1934: The Franklin D. Roosevelt bridge over Kipapa Gulch is formally dedicated and turned over to the Territory. The U.S. Bureau of Public Roads supervised the construction of the bridge, which was built with 100 percent federal funding.

1948: The Territory's attorney general says religious instruction programs in Hawai'i public school buildings are unconstitutional.

1948: Matson Navigation Co.'s Lurline returns to the Islands for the first time since the war. The Lurline was used as a troop ship during World War II.

1971: The state launches a crash program to start development of a major park on Sand Island.

1974: Sheetmetal Workers Local 293's 10-week strike ends. The strike affected 26 companies and disrupted workon Aloha Stadium and the downtown Municipal Building.

1984: Lyle L. "Gus" Guslander, who acquired a little hotel on Kaua'i that grew into the Island Holidays hotel empire, dies at the age of 69.

2002: The 2-year-old dog left aboard the crippled tanker Insiko 1907 is rescued by fishermen from a Honolulu longliner about 700 miles southwest of O'ahu.


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