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The history of today

FEBRUARY 19


The names of eight bubonic plague patients considered cured were printed in the Feb. 19, 1900, Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Twelve days had gone by without a plague death.

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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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