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The history of today

MARCH 4


This was the first-prize winner in the "Summer in Hawaii" poster contest, as pictured in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser on March 4, 1917.

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1899: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports a school history of Hawai'i is soon to be published in the United States. The author is the Rev. Alex S. Twombly, who was in the Islands on an extended visit a few years earlier.

1926: Two Army amphibian planes make the first complete interisland flight and set a flight record from Hilo to Pearl Harbor.

1940: Gen. George C. Marshall, Army chief of staff, arrives in Pearl City aboard Pan Am's Honolulu Clipper to inspect Fort Shafter, Fort Kameha-meha, Hickam Field, Wheeler Field and other installations.

1942: A Japanese plane drops four heavy bombs on the slopes of Tantalus about 2:15 a.m. One bomb falls not far from Roosevelt High School. No one is hurt and no buildings are damaged. The explosions are heard throughout the city. Houses shake and windows rattle in Manoa and Makiki. Honolulu is blacked out at the time the bombs were dropped.

1947: The Advertiser reports that the Ala Wai boathouse and grounds, which had been operated by the Navy as a social club open to officers of all armed forces, will be returned to the territory. However, Fort DeRussy will be retained by the Army.

1967: Retail stores report business is down as much as 40 percent because of the bus strike, which began March 1.

1974: Larry Price is named coach of the University of Hawai'i football team.

1995: The voyaging canoes Hokule'a and Hawai'iloa arrive in Papeete, Tahiti, in a record-breaking 21-day voyage from Hawai'i, the fastest since Hokule'a began sailing to Tahiti in 1976. Other voyages averaged about 30 days.


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