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The history of today

FEBRUARY 28


On Feb. 28, 1874, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser printed the order of procession for the funeral of King Lunalilo.

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1905: Jane Stanford, widow of U.S. Sen. Leland Stanford, dies at the Moana Hotel after telling a doctor she had been poisoned.

1926: A gang of auto thieves that had been active in February is being broken up, and it is expected that the percentage of stolen cars will be cut down to almost nothing, a police traffic official declares.

1941: Honolulu Rapid Transit Co. workers end their strike, which began Feb. 1. Buses resumed service on March 1.

1942: Rear Adm. Husband Kimmel and Maj. Gen. Walter Short are ordered court-martialed for dereliction of duty in connection with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Their applications for retirement, effective immediately, were accepted.

1951: Eight-hundred Hawaiian Pineapple Co. workers strike on Lana'i after plantation officials refuse to reinstate 19 workers who were laid off for slowing down on their harvesting jobs. Workers had been without a contract since Feb. 1.

1955: Lava bursts forth from a dormant volcano field in Pahoa, and by evening had flowed across a road and forced the evacuation of 500 people from nearby Kapoho Village.

1968: Amfac announces plans for twin 20-story office towers on its historic block between Bishop, Fort and Queen streets and Nimitz Highway.

1976: About 200 people, most of them native Hawaiians, place a flag near the locked gate to Makua Valley in an effort to get the military to stop using the land as a firing range.

1998: Maurice J. Sullivan, founder of Foodland Super Market, dies at the age of 89. He founded Foodland in 1948 and opened more than 175 retail stores, from supermarkets to boutiques to McDonald's restaurants.


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