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The history of today

JUNE 12


The bark Speedwell brought Mainland news for the June 12, 1862, issue of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser.

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1870: The Jubilee Festival, marking the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first American missionaries in April 1820, opens.

1909: Sugar strike leaders who had been arrested two days earlier are charged with conspiracy and being disorderly.

1920: Kamehameha Schools announces it will add to its vocational curriculum and academic curriculum to prepare students for university-level education in arts and sciences.

1921: Henry F. Wichman, president of H.F. Wichman & Co. and a noted Honolulu jeweler, dies at the age of 55.

1932: A Hilo, Hawai'i, contractor, Rikan Konishi, successfully descends into smoldering Halema'uma'u crater to recover the bodies of two young people. The Advertiser reported he spent four hours on the floor of the crater. The bodies had been in the crater since June 2, when a Hilo pipe-fitter shot and killed a Hilo high school girl who refused to marry him. After killing the girl, he jumped into the crater.

1942: Lester McCoy, chairman of the Honolulu parks board for many years, dies at the age of 65.


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