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The history of today

FEBRUARY 26


The Senate of the Fifth Territorial Legislature accomplished its routine in a hurry and adjourned early, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on Feb. 26, 1909.

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1943: A bill is introduced in the territorial legislature to raise the residency requirement for territorial jobs from three years to eight years.

1947: Hilo Harbor remains shut down after the waterfront's 200 ILWU longshoremen refuse to unload vessels after a dispute on sling loading.

1971: A deliberately set fire destroys two rooms in an Army ROTC building at the University of Hawai'i. A former UH religion instructor and antiwar activist is questioned.

1976: The NCAA restores the eligibility of four University of Hawai'i basketball players who appeared in a television commercial for a local automobile dealership.

1977: Gov. George Ariyoshi announces the state will buy Waiahole Valley from landowner Elizabeth Marks to preserve the agricultural and rural profile of the valley.

1986: Ousted Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos arrives at Hickam Air Force Base. Gov. George Ariyoshi had extended an invitation to him to live in Hawai'i.


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