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The history of today

MAY 14


The May 14, 1909, Pacific Commercial Advertiser printed this invitation from the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce.

1902: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports that the widening of the Waikiki road is making rapid progress.

1902: The Chamber of Commerce joins with the Merchants' Association to advertise the Hawaiian islands throughout the United States.

1905: Gas is manufactured in Honolulu for the first time. The Honolulu Gas Company in Iwilei began manufacturing the new household fuel in its new plant makai of the Pacific Oil and Union Oil companies.

1940: The "main line" of the U.S. fleet, the 10 battleships at Pearl Harbor, puts to sea under cover of heavy sea, air and submarine security patrol. The ships were Pennsylvania, Colorado, West Virginia, Maryland, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Idaho, Mississippi and Nevada. Lahaina Road was to be their base for an indefinite period.

1941: Twenty-one Army B17 bombers complete a mass flight from San Francisco to Hawai'i in a move designed to strengthen the aerial might of the Islands.

1948: Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. and Kahului Railroad Co. announce plans for a new "model" city built around the port of Kahului on Maui.

1949: More than 5,000 Hawai'i residents send telegrams to President Truman asking him to intervene and end the Hawai'i dock strike, which began May 1.

1958: James Drummond Dole, the founder of Hawai'i's pineapple industry, dies at the age of 80.

1983: A state report concludes that tourism has an even greater impact on the state's economy — especially employment — than previously thought. The report said tourism supplied a third of all civilian jobs in the state and each dollar spent by tourists generated a total of $2.04 in sales as money was recycled through the economy.

1984: The state Board of Agriculture grants Safeway's application for a license to bring in Mainland milk after Federal Judge Martin Pence imposed a deadline on the board and gave it almost no choice on how it could vote.

1994: Fire destroys the prized Japanese tea house in Hilo's Queen Lili'uokalani Gardens Park.

2005: Mother Marianne Cope, who worked in the Hansen's Disease settlement on Moloka'i, is beatified in ceremonies at the Vatican.


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