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The history of today

MARCH 16


The Board of Supervisors approved automatic signal lights "at all important intersections" on Beretania Street between Punchbowl and Punahou streets, according to this story in the March 16, 1938, Honolulu Advertiser.

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1919: The Phoenix fountain, a gift of the Japanese residents of Hawai'i to the city of Honolulu, is dedicated in Kapi'olani Park.

1922: Honolulu residents are able see the new federal building for the first time now that the fence and construction sheds have been removed.

1926: A Honolulu bootleg hui gets a jolt. Officials raided a huge still near the head of Wai'alae-uka and confiscated 35 barrels containing 1,860 gallons of mash, a 150-gallon wooden still and 30 gallons of finished product. On the same day, the federal dry squad staged three raids on O'ahu, and tipped over 550 gallons of 'okolehao mash.

1928: The new Army and Navy YMCA is dedicated.

1952: The new James B. Castle High School is dedicated.

1962: Dock workers strike the Pacific Maritime Association, affecting ports on the West Coast and in Honolulu.

1966: Gemini 8 astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott make an emergency splashdown in the western Pacific after their three-day mission is aborted because of problems with their capsule while they were linked to an Agena target rocket in space. The two astronauts will spend 18 hours in Hawai'i before returning to Cape Kennedy.

1987: The popular 3,922-step Ha'iku Valley ladder, O'ahu's "stairway to heaven," is closed for maintenance work on the Coast Guard's Omega navigational antenna. Later in the year, the stairway would be closed completely by the Coast Guard because of vandalism.


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