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The history of today

JANUARY 22


A Honolulu Advertiser front-page story on Jan. 22, 1934, described a landslide’s effect on traffic.

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1906 A strike by workers at Oahu Sugar Co.'s Waipahu plantation ends.

1936 A four-day shipping strike that tied up Matson ships in Honolulu ends.

1940 Sears, Roebuck and Co. announces it will build a store between Beretania and Young streets.

1948 Walter Frear, former governor of Hawai'i and first chief justice of the territorial Supreme Court, dies at age 84.

1968 Duke Kahanamoku dies at the age of 77.

1973 The U.S. Supreme Court issues the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision.

1973 Lyndon Johnson, former president of the United States, dies. He was 64.

1984 The Apple Macintosh is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with the television commercial "1984."


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