The history of today
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1932: Princess Kalaniana'ole dies at the age of 53.
1936: After a six-year absence from Honolulu's streets, an automated traffic signal is installed at the intersection of Nu'uanu Avenue and Beretania Street.
1942: President Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, which established internment camps for Japanese nationals and Americans of Japanese descent.
1967: A colorful Island show of hula dancers is beamed 3,860 miles over the Pacific to an estimated 8 million television viewers in Japan in what is the first live television transmission from Hawai'i to Asia via the Lani Bird satellite.
1968: "Hawaii Five-O" has its world premiere at the Royal Theatre and it is announced it will become a CBS television series for the 1968-69 season
1993: Remember POGs? Printed milk cap covers are the hottest fad since puka-shell necklaces, The Advertiser reports.
2002: Former police officer Clyde Arakawa is found guilty of manslaughter for killing Dana Ambrose in a car crash on his way home from a night of heavy drinking.
2002: The state suspends its controversial traffic camera enforcement program after two state judges dismiss more than 100 contested speeding citations because of a technical flaw in the program.
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