The history of today MARCH 9

	Because American-Hawaiian steamships were pressed into war trade in the Atlantic in 1916, Hawaii sugar had to be transported by rail from the West Coast. On March 9, 1916, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on the first of those rail journeys.

1902: St. Andrew's Cathedral is consecrated.

1905: A coroner's jury concludes that Mrs. Jane Stanford, who died Feb. 28 at the Moana Hotel, was murdered.

1912: The SS Mauna Kea, flagship of the Inter-Island fleet, sinks in 35 feet of water in the harbor. The ship was being hauled up on the marine railway when a cable snapped and the steamer slid back into the harbor.

1926: Honolulu has a ring of auto thieves almost as powerful as the rum ring that has been running booze into the city, The Honolulu Advertiser reports. The paper said that for every case of booze that is smuggled into the territory on steamers in the guise of freight, there goes out to the Mainland two cases of automobile accessories in the guise of junk.

1933: President Roosevelt's order closing banks is extended indefinitely. All Hawai'i banks remain closed.

1957: Massive earthquakes in the Aleutians send a tsunami to Hawai'i. Two people are killed, including a Star-Bulletin reporter, and damage is estimated at $3 million. Some 75 homes are demolished or damaged between Kalihiwai and Ha'ena on Kaua'i. Some 250 people on Kaua'i are homeless as a result of the tsunami.

1963: A police crackdown on "bad driving" goes into full swing. Seventeen people had been killed in traffic accidents since the beginning of the year.

1971: The City Council approves a $50,000 appropriation to demolish the longtime and popular beachside hangout Queen's Surf.

1974: Some 9,000 sugar workers strike Hawai'i plantations.

1978: The state agrees to pay John and Aiko Reinecke $250,000 in an out-of-court settlement of the Reineckes' lawsuit, which claimed they were wrongfully dismissed as public school teachers in 1948 during a period of virulent anti-Communist feelings in Hawai'i.

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