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The history of today

JUNE 1


The front page of the June 1, 1888, Pacific Commercial Advertiser included an advertisement for the National Brewery in Kalihi Valley.

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1901: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports plans are being made to install an electric plant on Maui.

1916: Gov. Pinkham announces plans for a park on Tantalus.

1935: The Hawaii Tourist Bureau announces a goal of 40,000 tourists a year by1940. In 1934, 16,000 tourists visited Hawai'i.

1939: The board of supervisors approves buying the site of the old Honolulu Military Academy for a new Kaimuki Intermediate School.

1950: Mauna Loa erupts, sending a flow of lava to the sea. Residents between 'Alae and Pahoehoe were being evacuated. Honolulu residents reported seeing the reddish glow from the eruption. The eruption ends on June 20.

1956: The Ward estate property is chosen as the site for a new municipal auditorium.

1958: Hawai'i Episcopal Bishop and Mrs. Harry Kennedy are among the passengers on a Pan American jet that skids off a runway at Manila's airport. The Kennedys are not injured, but one passenger is killed and another is hurt in the accident.

1958: The Shah of Iran arrives in Hawai'i for a three-week vacation at Coconut Island. He is given a lei on his arrival but takes it off immediately.

1961: Two workers are injured when a 2›-ton section of stone for the statue of Columbia at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific crashes through a scaffold while being hoisted into place. The section of stone was one of 18 sections that made up the relief figure of Columbia.

1962: The Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin form a jointly owned third company to handle noneditorial functions for the two papers. The joint operating agreement assured The Advertiser's survival. At the time, The Advertiser's circulation was 64,000, compared with 105,000 for the Star-Bulletin.

1972: International Development Co. reaches an agreement with Mayor Frank Fasi that allows the company to build high-rise medium-density apartments near Salt Lake, which at the time was being filled in for construction of the golf course. The company agrees to donate park space to the city in exchange.

1977: Operation Destroy begins on Maui and Kaua'i. The National Guard-police operation was aimed at wholesale destruction of marijuana plants.


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