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The history of today

JANUARY 19


On Jan. 19, 1917, the Queen's Hospital Training School for Nurses celebrated its first anniversary. The Pacific Commercial Advertiser ran a Page One photo of the 11 women who completed the preliminary course.

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1929: Inter-Island Airways Ltd. is formed. Service was to begin with three amphibian planes and a six-day schedule with flights from Honolulu to the Big Island with stops at Moloka'i, Lana'i and Maui as required. Flights between Honolulu and Kaua'i were to be worked out later.

1938: Eighteen U.S. Navy bombers land at Pearl Harbor in what was called the greatest mass flight in the history of naval aviation. It also set a distance record, 2,631 miles in 20 hours and 30 minutes.

1957: Hawai'i's two biggest employee-teacher groups, the Hawaiian Government Employees Association and the Hawaii Education Association, propose that the Legislature nearly double the retail sales tax from 2.5 percent to 4.5 percent. Both groups were seeking pay increases.

1981: The United States and Iran sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.

1988: Mid Pacific Airlines, the feisty little carrier that for seven years brought low fares and a new level of competition to the interisland airline market, shuts down its passenger business, a victim of declining traffic and financial woes.

1998: Monsignor Charles Kekumano, the first Catholic priest of Hawaiian ancestry and former chancellor of the Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, dies at the age of 78.

2003: Striking nurses at St. Francis Medical Center ratify a new contract. They had been on strike for seven weeks. St. Francis was the last hospital to settle with striking nurses.


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