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The history of today

DECEMBER 5


The Advertiser reported on Dec. 5, 1909, that Gov. Walter Frear had sent a cablegram from New York with the news that Andrew Carnegie would give Honolulu $100,000 for a public library building.
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1935: Pan American’s China Clipper leaves Hawai'i for San Francisco on the last leg of what was then the longest over-water flight in history. The China Clipper also was completing the first roundtrip regularly scheduled airmail flight between San Francisco and Manila.

1949: Fire destroys the 23-year-old main building of Washington Intermediate School. There were 35 students attending a Japanese language class in the building when the fire broke out; all got out safely. Damage was estimated at $500,000.

1975: United Airlines mechanics go on strike, shutting down the nation’s largest carrier. Twenty flights between Hawai'i and the Mainland were canceled.


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