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The history of today

JULY 15


On July 15, 1920, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported that Central Union Church planned to purchase the Dillingham property at Beretania and Punahou streets for "a beautiful modern church edifice."

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1917: Hawai'i is 1,994 men over its quota of volunteers for military service, the war department announces.

1927: Pilots Ernie Smith and Emory Bronte fly from Oakland to Hawai'i, crash-landing on Moloka'i. They are the first civilians to fly to Hawai'i.

1947: The five-day pineapple strike ends when both sides accept a mediator's proposal to resume contract negotiations.

1979: The Hawai'i Public Employment Relations Board rules the day-old statewide police walkout is an illegal strike, but officers continue the walkout.



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