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The history of today

FEBRUARY 10


Disagreements flared in a state Capitol hearing to evaluate the state's plan to ensure that gasoline was distributed fairly during the energy crisis. This is from the front page of the Feb. 10, 1974, Advertiser.

1908: Lo Sun, editor of a Chinese daily newspaper in Honolulu, is arrested under the Chinese Exclusion Act. It is alleged he entered the Territory as a teacher and then went to work for the paper.

1911: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports on plans for an observatory hotel, along the lines of a Cliff House, for the cleft of the Pali, "where the view will command not only all the wonderful Ko'olau country, but the Nu'uanu Valley and the city of Honolulu."

1926: A petition is submitted to the Territorial treasurer with plans for a $1 million city hall to be built at King and Punchbowl streets. The site had been recently purchased by the city.

1926: A permit is granted to Hawaiian Electric Co. for the construction of a $578,000 office building at the junction of King, Merchant and Richards streets.

1930: The first interisland telephone call is placed between Hilo and Honolulu.

1954: Thousands of Hawai'i residents sign a 3-mile roll of newsprint urging statehood.

1983: State Sen. Clifford Uwaine and unsuccessful Democratic House candidate Ross Segawa are indicted by the O'ahu grand jury on felony charges stemming from voter-registration fraud in the 19th House district.

1983: A federal judge upholds the joint operation of Honolulu's two daily papers, saying The Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin are entitled to a limited exemption from antitrust law. The city had challenged the joint operating agreement in a 1979 lawsuit.

1994: Dole Food Co. Chairman David Murdock apologizes for overzealous security at the New Year's Day wedding on Lana'i of billionaire Bill Gates. Murdock and the state signed a consent order that defined areas on Lana'i where the public has right of access.


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