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The history of today

JANUARY 30


On Jan. 30, 1891, the Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on the death of King Kalakaua. The ship carrying his body had arrived the previous day and that was the first anyone in Hawai'i knew of the Jan. 20 death of the king in San Francisco.

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1875: A reciprocity treaty between Hawai'i and the United States is signed, allowing sugar into U.S. markets duty-free.

1934: Judge James B. Poindexter is appointed governor of Hawai'i.

1948: India pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by a Hindu extremist.

1960: Famed Island singer Alfred Apaka dies at age 40. He had a heart attack while playing paddle tennis with friends.

1968: The Tet offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch a series of attacks in Vietnam.

1973: A jury finds G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord guilty of conspiracy, bugging and burglary in connection with the bugging of the Democratic party’s Watergate headquarters.

1993: Gannett Co. completes its purchase of The Honolulu Advertiser from Persis Corp., and sells the Honolulu Star-Bulletin to Liberty Newspapers Limited Partnership.

2005: Iraq holds an election for its national assembly, its first free election in half a century.


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