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The history of today

JUNE 10


General Inter-Island Navigation Co. advertised the June 12 departure of the steamer Kilauea in the June 10, 1865, Pacific Commercial Advertiser.

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1888: Kaumakapili Church is dedicated.

1909: Three leaders of the sugar strike, including Fred Makino and Yasutaro Soga, editor of the Nippu Jiji, are arrested and imprisoned. There was no formal charge against the three.

1911: Biplane pilot Clarence H. Walker crashes into a hala tree in Hilo in what may have been the first airplane accident in the Islands. The Advertiser account indicated that the engine failed.

1918: Honolulu's first territorial fair opens. It included agricultural displays and a gas-mask race, rodeo, band concert and moving pictures.

1920: Hawai'i's territorial normal school is criticized in a federal survey. The report said the school is behind in modern thought and practice in such subjects as civics and U.S. history. The school administration was faulted rather than the teaching staff.

1947: Fire destroys a hangar at John Rodgers Airport, damaging three planes beyond repair and injuring two people. Damage was estimated at $1 million. The hangar was used by repair and maintenance crews for Pan Am, United and Transpacific Airways and Pacific Overseas Airlines.

1947: The Board of Supervisors votes to install parking meters downtown.

1963: President Kennedy addresses the National Conference of Mayors meeting in Waikiki. Some 125,000 people line the streets to cheer the president's motorcade. By the time he arrives for the speech, his car is swamped with flowers.

1995: The United Church of Christ says it is creating a $1.25 million foundation to benefit Hawaiians because of its link to the 1893 overthrow of Hawai'i's monarchy.

2000: Kamehameha Highway reopens at Waimea Bay three months and four days after being closed because of a rockslide.


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