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The history of today

JANUARY 28


On Jan. 28, 1936, The Advertiser reported on the previous day's disinterment of Father Damien's body at Kalawao.

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1943: Lt. Gen. Delos C. Emmons announces that 1,500 Japanese-Americans will be inducted into the Army for voluntary combat service.

1947: The remodeled and refurbished Royal Hawaiian Hotel, which had been used by the Navy as a luxury "camp" for fliers and submarine personnel during World War II, reopens.

1953: Hawaiian Electric Co. purchases downtown property bounded by Ala Moana, Richards, Halekauwila and Alakea streets at auction for $210,501 and an exchange of lands with the Territory of Hawai'i. The property had once been the site of the city's picturesque and bustling Fish Market. The utility company built a $10 million power generation plant there "to meet modern Honolulu's greater demands for electricity,

1960: Fifteen feet of smoldering black lava from the Kilauea eruption covers at least 29 buildings in Kapoho, and two new lava rivers push on toward Kumukahi Lighthouse and the Kapoho Beach Lots.

1974: New rules go into effect aimed at ending panic buying of gasoline in Hawai'i. Drivers could have no more than a quarter tank of gas when making a gasoline purchase, and an even-odd plan went into effect. Drivers with license plates ending in an even number could buy gas on even-number days and drivers with license plates ending in an odd number could buy gas on odd-number days. No gas was to be sold on Saturdays and Sundays.

1986: The space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing all seven astronauts aboard, including Hawai'i's Ellison Onizuka.

2005: The exhumed remains of Mother Marianne Cope are flown from Kalaupapa to Honolulu. They later will be flown to Syracuse, N.Y., the home of Cope's religious order, the Sisters of St. Francis.


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