The history of today
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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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