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The history of today

MAY 9


The Civil War began on April 12, 1861. It was May before the news reached Honolulu. This is from the May 9, 1861, Pacific Commercial Advertiser.

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1900: The U.S. Senate confirms the appointment of Sanford Dole as governor of Hawai'i.

1907: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports it probably will be a surprise to the people of Honolulu to learn that the federal government has taken possession of Diamond Head as well as Punchbowl.

1918: Maj. Harold M. Clark, chief of the Army's Sixth Aero Squadron, leaves Fort Kamehameha at 9:15 a.m. for the first interisland seaplane flight. He flies to Maui and then to the Big Island, where his destination was Hilo but he crashes near Kaiwiki after getting lost in heavy cloud cover at the 8,000-foot elevation point. It takes him two days to walk out.

1922: The Honolulu Advertiser announces it has completed arrangements to introduce radio broadcasting to the Islands. The paper had acquired a $5,000 broadcasting set and planned to broadcast regular evening programs of a varied nature, including musical features, important announcements, vaudeville numbers, sermons, speeches and the like.

1957: A Hawaii Visitors Bureau research committee says seven out of 10 visitors are making trips to the Neighbor Islands, but O'ahu still gets 91 percent of the tourism money. The committee said it is time to plan the development of new destination areas outside of Waikiki.

1961: Vice President Lyndon Johnson arrives in Hawai'i en route to South Vietnam. While he is here, he dedicates the East-West Center "to fuse a new strength — a new strength for freedoms that will last through eternity." He also receives an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Hawai'i.

1999: Eight people are killed and 50 hurt when tons of boulders crash onto the pool below Sacred Falls. The cliff above the pool gave way at about 2:30 p.m. on a sunny Mother's Day.


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