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The history of today

JANUARY 27


The decision to name the new O'ahu belt road Kamehameha Highway was covered in the second section of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser on Jan. 27, 1920.

1916: Marguerite Kamehaokalani Ashford is the second woman ever admitted to the practice of law in Hawai'i.

1920: Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports that Kamehameha Highway is the name selected by the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors for the O'ahu belt road.

1936: Father Damien's remains are disinterred from his grave at Kalawao and taken to Honolulu. They will eventually be taken to Belgium.

1942: The office of the military governor warns Hawai'i merchants against profiteering in food items. A list of maximum prices is released for potatoes onions, rice, bananas, fish and cheese.

1954: Japan Airlines inaugurates service between Tokyo and Honolulu

1960: Lava from the Kilauea eruption crosses the main road in Kapoho and destroys the post office, Hara's Store and 12 other buildings in the village.

1967: America's first three Apollo astronauts are killed when an intense flash fire traps them in their spacecraft in a simulated launch.

1985: Hawai'i's Ellison Onizuka completes his first space mission, a secret three-day flight by the shuttle Discovery. Its mission was to put an advanced radio eavesdropping satellite in a spy orbit overlooking the Soviet Union.


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