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The history of today

AUGUST 12


Several businessmen were considering cultivation of oysters in Pearl Harbor, the Aug. 12, 1901, Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported.

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1898: The U.S. flag is raised in the Islands and Hawai'i is annexed to the United States. Annexation came about as a result of the Newlands Resolution.

1906: St. Francis Catholic Church in Kalaupapa burns. The church was built in 1900 and included a marble altar that was a gift from an Italian princess.

1958: A nuclear flash brightens the skies to the south of O'ahu early in the morning as a nuclear rocket is fired from Johnston Island. It was less of a spectacle than the unannounced nuclear test Aug 1. No fireball was visible this time. Thousands of islanders had walked or driven to good vantage points along the coast hoping to see the explosion. The Aug. 1 explosion had set off mild panic.

1960: The United States retrieves a man-made object from space for the first time. The nose cone of Discoverer 13 was sent back to Earth from about 200 miles over the North Pole. It was retrieved about 250 miles north of Hawai'i. Aircraft from Hickam spotted the capsule.

1969: A total of 11 servicemen are now risking up to five years in prison by taking sanctuary at Church of the Crossroads. At least one of the group went AWOL while on R&R from Vietnam.


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