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The history of today

APRIL 29


It took almost three weeks for the news of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, to arrive in Honolulu. The clipper ship Archer brought a packet of San Francisco papers that included, as the April 29, 1865, Pacific Commercial Advertiser put it, "highly interesting news."

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1914: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports that large vessels can now enter Kuhio Bay after completion of dredging of a channel to Hilo Harbor.

1925: Bids are opened for a mooring mast at Pearl Harbor. It was expected the Navy's dirigible, the Los Angeles, would be sent to Pearl Harbor in the summer, The Advertiser reported.

1926: The Mid-Pacific Country Club is formed in an organizational meeting of charter members.

1932: Navy Lt. Thomas Massie, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Grace Fortescue, and two Navy enlisted men, Edward J. Lord and Albert O. Jones, are convicted of manslaughter in the shooting of Joseph Kahahawai at the Fortescue home on Jan. 9.

1952: Filming begins for "Big Jim McLain," which starred John Wayne and was the "first modern romantic adventure movie" made entirely in Hawai'i.

1970: Anti-ROTC protesters end their sit-in at the University of Hawai'i after six days. The students swept up and removed their belongings but left behind antiwar and anti-ROTC posters and slogans written in chalk on the walls of every room except one in the two ROTC buildings.

1975: The United States begins the final evacuation of Americans from Saigon, ending two decades of direct U.S. involvement in South Vietnam.

1978: Hawai'i's Judi Andersen is crowned Miss USA.

1994: Hawai'i's white-collar government workers vote to accept the government's settlement offer of a four-year contract with an average wage increase of 6 percent in the first two years and 2 percent in the last two years. That ended the HGEA's 12-day strike.

1999: Angry callers upset at the rejection of Margery Bronster as attorney general, jam the telephone lines of some Senate offices, focusing their ire on those who voted to reject her reconfirmation. .


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