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The history of today

MARCH 3


The front page on March 3, 1912. Duke Kahanamoku was a winner the previous day at the American Amateur Association's national swimming championship.

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1906: A roller skating rink opens at Queen and Fort streets.

1908: An order is issued by the Japanese government stopping all emigration of Japanese laborers to Hawai'i, Canada, the U.S. Mainland and Mexico pending the conclusion of negotiations with the United States.

1910: Some 250 Russian laborers camp out on the waterfront, defying planters who want them to work on plantations. They refuse to work, saying the work is too hard. They also say the plantation stores are overcharging them.

1933: Zoo elephant Daisy tramples her keeper to death and then is shot and killed by police.

1958: Henry Kaiser takes the first step to putting his long-talked-about medical insurance plan into operation in the Islands. He files with the Territorial Treasurer's Office a foreign corporation declaration for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. At the time, the Kaiser plan serves half a million people on the West Coast.

1983: Lava from Kilauea's eruption hisses and roils through two houses and countless acres of forest land above Kalapana. It is the first time since the devastating 1960 Kapoho flow that a volcano destroyed houses.

1990: Some 7,500 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 5 strike 11 hotels in the Islands' first major statewide hotel strike.

1991: Arthur Murray, whose dance studio empire taught a nation how to waltz, dies in his Diamond Head penthouse at the age of 95.


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