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The history of today

MARCH 20


Amelia Earhart was on an around-the-world flight in 1937 when her plane crashed on takeoff from Luke Field on O'ahu.

1926: The Honolulu Advertiser reports a tract of 180 acres on Wilhelmina Rise and Kahala Heights is sold and 600 lots are to be developed.

1928: S. & G. Gump Co. of San Francisco purchases 13,000 square feet of land at Kalakaua and Lewers from the Alexander Young Estate for $42,000.

1947: Hawaiian Tuna Packers plant operations are shut down by a strike involving 125 workers.

1955: Kilauea's spectacular eruption is now three weeks old and fountaining is reported to be 1,600 feet high. The fountaining could be seen from the Hilo airport control tower.

1969: The Catholic Diocese announces that St. Ann's High School will close and warned that the Catholic school system was in crisis because of a lack of planning and money.

1976: Patricia Hearst is found guilty of armed bank robbery by a jury that rejected her story that she was forced into the holdup by death threats and mistreatment at the hands of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

1979: Jean Charlot, dean of Hawai'i's art establishment and a fresco muralist of national repute, dies at the age of 81.


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