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The Honolulu Advertiser
The history of today

DECEMBER 6


Thousands of Big Island residents had thronged about the new Hilo terminal for its dedication the previous afternoon, The Advertiser reported on Dec. 6, 1953.

1886: King Kaläkaua is given a private viewing of artist Jules Tavernier’s panorama of Kïlauea crater. The panorama was then to be shown to the public in Honolulu and go on to San Francisco.

1901: The Hawaiian Pineapple Company is formed by James Dole to raise, sell, buy and can pineapples.

1918: The Hawaiian Civic Club is formed. The first president was Judge W.H. Heen. Annual dues were $3.

1931: The trial of five men accused of beating and raping Thalia Massie ends with a deadlocked jury and a mistrial is declared.

1945: An Army B-24 Liberator crashes into a Ke'ehi reef after taking off from John Rodgers Field. Five crewmen and three passengers, all Army personnel, were aboard. Only one survived.

1946: Oahu Sugar Co. purchases the Honolulu Plantation.

1954: In a yuletide gesture to the people of Hawai'i, striking dock radio operators on the West Coast release a Matson freighter loaded with 100,000 Christmas trees for the Islands.

1960: The Advertiser reports that a Madge Tennent painting, “Hawaiian Gioconda,” was stolen from the Kahuku home of Mrs. James F. Morgan Jr. The painting — also known as “The Hawaiian Mona Lisa” — had been stolen weeks earlier, but that was kept secret because of Tennent’s illness. The day the story ran, police, acting on a tip, found the painting in a gully, torn and soggy.

1963: Sheraton sells the Moana-Surfrider complex to Japanese investor Kenji Osano for $10.7 million.

2002: Residents of two buildings in the Lalea condominiums are told they should leave their homes because of the potential for rockslides. Two boulders had crashed down the nearby hillside a week earlier.




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