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The history of today

FEBRUARY 18


On Feb. 18, 1902, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on a letter from a Honolulu resident printed in the New York Sun deploring the recent loss of Hawaiian customs and practices. The writer noted windows and doors now had to be locked because of increased crime.

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1910: Gov. Walter Frear says Honolulu needs more sidewalks and fewer bad fences.

1927: The first commercial flying trip around the island of O'ahu is made in a Lewis Tours plane. There were four passengers and one pilot aboard.

1928: The purchase of 17,300 square feet of land on the makai side of Kalakaua Avenue 'ewa of Saratoga Road for $42,500 by the S.&G. Gump company of San Francisco is announced.

1961: A strike by Pan American World Airways flight engineers virtually shuts down the carrier's operations in and out of Honolulu.

1964: A dynamite explosion at the Lunalilo Freeway construction site in Kaimuki wrecks several homes and damages at least a dozen others.

1998: Pacific Century Financial Corp. announces it is merging its two subsidiaries, Bank of Hawaii and First Federal Savings & Loan, laying off 550 workers and closing 25 branches.


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