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The history of today

APRIL 25


Oahu Railway & Land Co.'s timetable was published regularly in The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. This ran on April 26, 1895.

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1885: Queen Emma dies at age 49.

1918: The German coat of arms is removed from the H. Hackfeld & Co. building.

1942: Noted Hawai'i architect Charles W. Dickey dies at the age of 72. He designed the original Farrington High School buildings, the Kamehameha boys' school, Kodak Hawaii building, Waikiki Theatre, Varsity Theater, Naniloa Hotel and Alexander & Baldwin Building, among many other buildings.

1947: United Airlines begins service to Hawai'i. United president William Patterson, the son of a Waipahu sugar plantation overseer, was born on O'ahu.

1952: Bishop Estate announces that an agreement has been reached to flow Halawa valley water into the Wai'alae-Koko Head area. That will allow a housing project that had been delayed for two years to move forward.

1952: Taisaku Kojima, chief of the Japanese Government Overseas Agency of Honolulu, is appointed the first postwar Japanese consul general for Hawai'i.

1966: The U.S. Supreme Court approves a reapportionment plan for the Hawai'i state Senate that almost doubles O'ahu's Senate seats and cuts Neighbor Island seats from 15 to six to conform to their proportion of the state's population.

1969: Harlan Cleveland, U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is chosen eighth president of the University of Hawai'i after an 18-month search.

1970: Some 300 picketers march in front of Washington Place demanding that Gov. Burns step in to stop the sit-in at the ROTC building at the University of Hawai'i.


Correction: Queen Emma died on April 25, 1885.