The history of today JANUARY 5

The Pacific Commercial Advertiser's account on Jan. 5, 1909, of the first day of government of the new City and County of Honolulu.

1929: The new Pawaa Theater opens with what was described as Hawaiian-modernistic design in its lobby. "Telling the World" was the first film shown at the theater, at the corner of King and Punahou streets.

1949: Burials begin at the new National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Punchbowl Crater. An unknown victim of the Pearl Harbor attack was the first burial.

1964: Pope Paul VI meets Greek patriarch Athenagoras in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439.

1968: Alexander Dubcek comes to power, "Prague spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.

1969: Hurricane force winds up to 92 miles per hour slam into the western tip of Kaua'i, destroying at least two buildings at the Navy's missile range facility.

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