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The history of today

MAY 10


On May 10, 1908, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on a battery of guns for Diamond Head.

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1909: Some 1,500 laborers at the Honolulu Plantation in 'Aiea go on strike for higher wages. Fred Makino, one of the leaders of the Higher Wage Association, said laborers wanted to be paid $1 a day and mill men wanted $2.50 a day.

1921: The Catholic Mission announces plans for a hospital to be run by the sisters of the Franciscan order.

1927: O'ahu's second belt road, to be created by linking the Pali-Waimanalo road at Makapu'u, is named Kalaniana'ole Highway in honor of the memory of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole.

1937: Gov. Joseph B. Poindexter signs a bill repealing the $10 high school tuition fee.

1942: The Mauna Loa eruption that began April 26 subsides after lava reaches within eight miles of the outskirts of Hilo. The Army bombed the flow to divert the lava. Because Hawai'i was under blackout regulations at the time, the Army had censored news of the eruption. It was not reported until May 19.

1959: The 30th and last Territorial legislature adjourns after a bitter fight over taxes.

1963: The Advertiser reports that Olga Waterhouse has been chosen chairwoman of the Honolulu Police Commission. She was the first woman to head a police commission in the United States.

1964: Frank Sinatra narrowly escapes drowning when he is trapped in an undertow and carried 200 yards offshore of his rented home on the north shore of Kaua'i. Sinatra was in Hawai'i to direct and act in "None But the Brave." He had gone into the water in an effort to rescue the wife of his executive producer.

1977: Four Hawai'i hotel companies and the Hawaii Hotel Association are found guilty of criminally conspiring to fix room rates and are fined from $10,000 to $50,000 by U.S. District Judge Samuel P. King. All had pleaded no contest.


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