The history of today
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1912: David Dwight Baldwin dies at the age of 80. The Pacific Commercial Advertiser described him as the father of English education in Hawai'i. His father arrived in Hawai'i on the second missionary ship.
1955: Fire destroys 17 classrooms at Lanakila School.
1957: The SS Matsonia enters Hawai'i service.
1967: A confidential report obtained by The Advertiser shows that no public high school in the state had a top rating from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, but eight private high schools did. The eight were: Maryknoll, Sacred Hearts Academy, St. Andrew's Priory, Punahou, Star of the Sea, St. Ann's, Hawaii Preparatory Academy and St. Francis Convent.
1977: Dick Tomey will be the new UH head football coach, The Advertiser reports. At the time, Tomey was an assistant coach at UCLA.
1983: Fourteen crewmembers are killed when a Navy P-3 Orion plane crashes into an almost inaccessible ridge on Kaua'i's northwest coast before dawn. The plane was on a routine mission in support of Third Fleet units.
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