The history of today MAY 8

	The Hawai'i Promotion Department in 1908 hoped to persuade the Navy to name one of its new battleships after the Territory of Hawai'i.

1891: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports on the completion of the Hawaiian Sugar Co.'s ditch to Makaweli, Kaua'i. The paper calls it a great engineering work and essential to building up the plantation at Makaweli.

1907: A congressional committee arrives in Hawai'i to tour the islands for three weeks.

1926: Fire breaks out in a butcher shop of the 'ewa-makai corner of Maunakea and Pauahi streets. It swept through four buildings before fire fighters got it under control. Forty families were left homeless.

1927: St. Francis Hospital is dedicated in Liliha.

1931: The Lili'uokalani Trust purchases 20,561 square feet of land along the proposed 60-foot road about 130 feet from the Ala Wai, near the fairgrounds entrance.

1936: More than 1,000 people crowd the grounds of Kapi'olani Park to watch children take part in the first citywide hula contest sponsored by the city-county recreation commission.

1941: Sears, Roebuck & Co. opens its new store on Beretania Street.

1945: President Truman announces the unconditional surrender of Germany and warns Japan it can expect nothing but complete destruction unless it surrenders. In Hawai'i, Gov. Stainback says Honolulu will not celebrate V-E day.

1951: Oren E. Long is inaugurated governor of Hawai'i. He is the 10th territorial governor.

1973: Island crime syndicate boss Wilford K. "Nappy" Pulawa is convicted by a Federal Court jury of three counts of income tax evasion and three counts of filing false tax returns. Federal Judge Samuel P. King orders Pulawa taken into immediate custody after a prosecution contention that Pulawa was a threat to the community and had "imposed a reign of terror on this island."

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