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The history of today

MARCH 28


Manoa residents won a battle to get the board of supervisors to back off its order requiring sidewalks in the valley, according to a story in the March 28, 1928, Honolulu Advertiser.

1926: The Honolulu Advertiser reports that a proposal by Allied Architects of Honolulu to draft plans and specifica
tions for a new city hall has been accepted.

1943: A huge crowd honors Hawai'i's 2,800 Japanese-American military volunteers in a farewell ceremony at 'Iolani Palace. The soldiers marched from the railroad station to the palace grounds in what was the first parade in Honolulu since the war began. The new soldiers left soon after for training at Camp Shelby, Miss.

1947: Truck drivers walk off the job and force the closing of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co. cannery. The drivers struck after 18 were suspended for refusing to cross the Hawaiian Tuna Packing picket line.

1957: The city Planning Commission zones the 210-acre Damon Tract as an airport district, the first such zone in Hawai'i.

1963: Thomas Hamilton is inaugurated seventh president of the University of Hawai'i.

1969: Dwight Eisenhower, hero general of World War II and 34th president of the United States, dies at the age of 78.

1994: Blaming workers' refusal to take pay cuts, Ka'u Agribusiness announces it will begin phasing out sugar operations. At the same time, C. Brewer was phasing out Hilo Coast Processing Co., and bankrupt Hamakua Sugar Co. was in its final harvest.


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