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FEBRUARY 16


E. Henriques asked the Board of Health for permission to have a dozen pet pigs at his home in Nu'uanu Valley. He did not prevail. This story is from the Feb. 16, 1901, Pacific Commercial Advertiser.

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1895: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports that 381 people have been arrested since Jan. 6, when the royalist rebellion began; 94 have been tried before the military court; 55 have been released; and two have been acquitted. Three have been deported.

1924: The Territory's new mental hospital may be built at Kane'ohe on land donated by former Gov. Lucius Pinkham, according to the acting governor of the Territory.

1928: The chief of the aeronautics division of the U.S. Department of Commerce completes an inspection of Hawai'i airports and possible airline facilities and declares that interisland air transportation will be in effect in the Islands before the end of the year.

1953: Samuel Wilder King is named governor of the Territory of Hawai'i, the first part-Hawaiian governor of the Islands.

1969: More than 9,000 Hawai'i sugar workers represented by the ILWU strike 23 plantations over wages.

2000: A Big Island jury finds Albert Ian Schweitzer guilty of second-degree murder and other charges in the 1991 death of Dana Ireland. Schweitzer was the second man convicted of murder in the case, which gained a high profile because of the brutality of the killing and because it took eight years to bring someone to trial.


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