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The history of today

MARCH 6


From the March 6, 1925, Honolulu Advertiser: The Public Utilities Commission approved expenditures for additional bus service in Kalihi and lighted signs showing the number of each street car.

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1899: Princess Ka'iulani dies at the age of 23.

1905: The inquest into the death of Jane Stanford begins in the private dining room at the Moana Hotel.

1921: The new observation and parlor car makes its first run on the Oahu Railroad & Land Co. Honolulu-Hale'iwa route. The train left the Honolulu depot at 9:30 a.m. and arrived in Hale'iwa at noon.

1933: President Franklin Roosevelt orders all banks closed for four days nationwide because of heavy withdrawals of gold and currency. Hawai'i banks were included in the order.

1946: The Japanese government announces through Gen. Douglas MacArthur it has drafted a new constitution reducing Emperor Hirohito to the status of a figurehead ruler. The new constitution also abolished war as a sovereign right of the nation.

1952: The right and left wings of the territorial Democratic party end their two-year feud and say they are determined to work as one party.

1961: Queen Emma Gardens Ltd. is chosen to build Honolulu's first redevelopment apartment project. Queen Emma Gardens' principals included E.E. Black Ltd. and Castle & Cooke.

1981: The Japanese tourists who were hijacked and robbed when they arrived in Hawai'i on March 2, return to the Hawaii Visitors Bureau the $17,633 raised by Island businesses and residents to assist them. The donation from the tourists was used to start a victim assistance fund.

1982: Amfac Inc. announces it will close four of its five sugar plantations for two weeks starting March 15, the first of two shutdowns planned for the year. The company cited a first-quarter sugar loss that would reach a historic high.

1997: Roy C. Kelley, the hotel entrepreneur who was one of the pioneers in Hawai'i's hotel industry and made it possible for budget-minded tourists to stay in the Islands, dies at the age of 91.

2000: About 20 cubic yards of rock falls onto Kamehameha Highway from Waimea Valley's northern cliff wall, closing the road and cutting the North Shore in half.


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