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The history of today

APRIL 28


The new Oahu Country Club opened on April 27, 1907. The Pacific Commercial Advertiser published this photo and a story on April 28.

1910: The Orpheum Theater, which pioneered popular-priced theatricals in Honolulu, is destroyed by fire. The Orpheum rooming house on Fort Street was also gutted.

1932: Clarence Darrow makes his closing argument to the jury in the Kahahawai murder case.

1937: Honolulu park authorities say they will crack down on nude swimmers at Ala Moana park. Night watchmen reported there have been nude bathing parties on the reef off the park.

1953: The first group of repatriated Americans who were prisoners in the Korean War arrive at Hickam Air Force Base.

1974: Hawai'i's first dual sugar-pineapple strike ends when 6,000 pineapple workers on O'ahu, Maui and Lana'i ratify a new contract. The pineapple workers had been on strike since April 6. The sugar workers, who went on strike March 8, returned to work April 24.

1986: Two months after personally welcoming Ferdinand Marcos to Hawai'i, Gov. George Ariyoshi said it would be better if Marcos lived elsewhere because the Filipino community is divided over his presence.

1988: A section of the fuselage of an Aloha Airlines 737 tears off midflight, killing a flight attendant and injuring 61 passengers. The plane was 25 miles southeast of Maui at the time of the accident and the pilot steered the crippled plane to Kahului Airport to a safe wheels-down landing.

1990: Gov. John Waihee appoints U.S. Rep. Daniel Akaka to replace the late Sen. Spark Matsunaga through the remainder of the year.

1999: The IRS is demanding that all five Bishop Estate trustees, Gerard Jervis, Lokelani Lindsey, Henry Peters, Oswald Stender and Richard Wong, step down immediately or risk losing the tax-exempt status of the charitable trust, The Advertiser reports.

1999: The state Senate rejects the reappointment of Attorney General Margery Bronster in what became the defining issue of the 1999 Legislature.


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