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The history of today

JUNE 19


Two military aviators have been designated to attempt the first flight from the West Coast to Hawai'i, the June 18, 1927, Advertiser reported.

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1901: The Board of Health decides that mail from the U.S. Mainland no longer needs to be fumigated unless the incidence of smallpox on the Mainland increases.

1902: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser says reports of a threatened volcanic eruption in Hawai'i are keeping many people from traveling to the Islands.

1940: Searchlight patrols of Honolulu and Pearl Harbor are to be continued indefinitely, army authorities say.

1953: The Hawai'i 7 are found guilty in federal court of conspiracy to incite violent revolution against the government, as leaders of the Communist Party of Hawai'i. ILWU longshoremen in Honolulu and Hilo, Hawai'i, shut down the waterfront in protest. One of those convicted is Jack Hall, the union's regional director. The convictions were eventually overturned.

1954: Joseph R. Farrington, Hawai'i delegate to Congress and leader of the movement for Hawai'i statehood, dies of a heart attack in his Washington office. Farrington, 56, a lifelong newspaperman, rose from reporter to president and publisher of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

1961: Construction begins on the first hotel at Ka'anapali. The hotel would also be Sheraton's first Neighbor Island property.

1968: The Most Rev. James Sweeney, first bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, dies in San Francisco at the age of 70.

1970: The Lurline sails out of Honolulu for the last time.

2001: Liberty House, the state's oldest and largest retailer, is sold to Federated Department Stores Inc. and will become a Macy's.


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