The history of today FEBRUARY 1

	On Feb. 1, 1901, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on the new sugar mill planned for Honolulu Plantation.

1893: The U.S. flag is raised at Ali'iolani Hale and the U.S. government, at the request of the Provisional Government, assumes "protection of the Hawaiian Islands."

1895: Two Edison inventions, the kinetoscope and the graphophone, go on display in Honolulu for the first time.

1903: The Rapid Transit Company begins its through service to Waikiki.

1913: The first public library, the Library of Hawai'i, opens in Honolulu.

1914: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports that Honolulu's first string quartet will make its debut in a benefit concert for the Le'ahi Home.

1920: The Federation of Japanese Labor calls a strike at O'ahu sugar plantations, joining Filipino plantation workers already out on strike.

1927: The Royal Hawaiian hotel opens.

1941: Honolulu Rapid Transit Co. workers strike, idling buses in Honolulu.

1949: Mayor John Wilson says the city's purchase of the beachfront land next to the Moana Hotel will be just the first step in a master plan for the extension of Kuhio Beach.

1951: Arcadia, the home of the late Mary Dillingham Frear, is bequeathed to Punahou School. It is now the site of the Arcadia Retirement Residence.

1952: Honolulu begins a six-month parking meter test. Motorists for the first time have to deposit pennies or nickels when parking in the meter zone. A nickel purchased an hour of parking, a penny 12 minutes.

1958: The ILWU orders a Territory-wide sugar strike, carrying out its pledge of "no contract, no work." The union ordered 15,000 workers on 26 plantations off the job.

1961: Some 8,500 sugar workers stayed away from their jobs for one day on 17 plantations after management refused to extend their contract.

1963: Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip sip tea with Gov. Burns in a brief Hawai'i stopover en route to Fiji. It was the first visit to Hawai'i by a reigning British monarch.

2003: The space shuttle Columbia, returning to Earth after a 16-day mission, disintegrates over Texas, killing seven astronauts.

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