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The history of today

DECEMBER 22


The Dec. 22, 1942, Advertiser reports that cars could now be on the street until 10 p.m., but car lights had to conform to blackout regulations imposed for World War II.
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1926: The 17,000-ton motorship Aorangi of the Canadian-Australian Royal Mail line crashes into the U.S. submarine R-5 at pier 7 and then hits the quarantine wharf on the opposite side of the harbor. The quarantine wharf was almost destroyed.

1931: The Dillingham family gives land at Mokule'ia to the YMCA. The land had been used as a YMCA camp for the previous six years as a memorial to Harold Randolph Erdman.

1950: Honolulu Rapid Transit Co. bus workers go on strike. The walkout lasted into late January.

1965: Lead elements of the 25th Infantry Division have left for South Vietnam, The Advertiser reports, with more large troop movements continuing over the next several days.

1967: Oliver Lee wins a preliminary victory in his tenure fight at the University of Hawai'i. A special Faculty Senate committee determined the university had failed to follow academic due process.

1969: A Seatrain container ship arrives with 200 containers of food for barren Island grocery shelves. A day earlier, a tentative agreement had been reached in the shipping strike that had shut virtually every West Coast port since Nov. 21.


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