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The history of today

JULY 23


Practically all of the Navy's Pacific fleet will visit Hawai'i in the fall, the July 23, 1920, Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported.

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1956: The territorial highway department says a monkeypod tree growing in the middle of Vineyard Boulevard must give way to progress and be cut down. Cars had been routed around the tree, but now Vineyard is to be a "distributor road" for Lunalilo Freeway and must be widened and improved. That doomed the tree. The public works department met with the Outdoor Circle to explain to them why the tree had to go.
1957: A Navy patrol plane plunges into the ocean off Barbers Point, killing the crew of 10.






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