The history of today
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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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