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APRIL 22


Father Damien died on April 15,1889, but the news did not reach Honolulu until Saturday, April 20, when the steamer Mokolii arrived from Moloka'i. The next issue of The Pacific Commercial Advertiser printed the news on April 22, 1889.

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1896: A volcanic eruption on Mauna Loa is reported.

1899: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports that the new C. Brewer building on Fort Street is to be five stories high. The paper comments that the time is not very far distant when three- and four-story buildings in the business portion of the city will be the rule rather than the exception.

1899: The new Princess Ka'iulani School is opened to the public. The Pacific Commercial Advertiser commented that it was undoubtedly the finest public school building in the Islands.

1928: The Honolulu Advertiser reports on the sale of land on Young Street near Kapi'olani Street to Dr. George F. Straub. The land was on the makai side of Young Street next to land already owned by Straub.

1935: Pan American's Clipper leaves O'ahu for its return flight to the Mainland.

1947: The Navy orders the naval air stations at Hilo and Kahului closed.

1949: University of Hawai'i President Gregg Sinclair announces that UH will establish a College of Business Administration in the fall.

1955: Henry Kaiser buys the Niumalu Hotel for $1.3 million. It adjoins the property that Kaiser bought a year earlier from the John Ena estate.

1984: President Reagan attends the Easter Sunday service at St. Andrew's Cathedral. He was in Hawai'i for two days en route to China.

1992: A Scenic Air Tours twin-engine plane crashes near the summit of Haleakala, killing all nine people aboard.

1994: Striking HGEA members agree to staff the state Bureau of Conveyance so that home sales and other real estate transactions could be recorded. The union said it never intended to harm either its own members or members of the public who have pending real estate deals.

1994: Richard M. Nixon, the former president, dies at the age of 81. In 1974, Nixon became the first president to resign — forced from office by the Watergate scandal, which began with a bungled burglary of the Democratic headquarters in Washington.


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