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The history of today

JUNE 21


The June 21, 1924, Honolulu Advertiser reported on the appointment of Miles Cary as principal of McKinley High School.

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1908: Funeral services are held for Prince David Kawananakoa, with rain falling as his casket is carried into the Royal Mausoleum.

1963: Unionized workers at the two daily papers, The Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, strike for more than six weeks.

1979: The Advertiser reports that in a message to the State Department, Britain has expressed grave concerns over Gov. George Ariyoshi's refusal earlier in the month to allow the nuclear waste-bearing ship Pacific Fisher into Honolulu Harbor. Instead, the British-owned ship takes on fuel and provisions at Pearl Harbor.

1986: The Rev. Donald Hart, rector of St. James Church in Keene, N.H., is elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Hawai'i.

1998: The USS Missouri arrives in Hawai'i after being towed across the Pacific. The mighty ship stops within a mile of Kalaupapa to dip the U.S. flag and give a whistle salute in tribute to residents of the Moloka'i peninsula.


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