The history of today MAY 15

	On May 15, 1900, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on Alexander Young's purchase of the McGrew property on Hotel Street between Fort and Alakea.

1918: The first air-mail service in the United States is inaugurated between Washington and New York. The aircraft was capable of carrying 600 pounds of mail.

1949: The ILWU says dockworkers will unload food and dairy feed from strike-bound ships in Honolulu Harbor. The dock strike began May 1 and lasted almost six months.

1954: Qantas Imperial Airways inaugurates trans-Pacific service through Honolulu.

1963: Air Force Maj. Gordon Cooper, a former University of Hawai'i student, orbits the Earth 22 times in the last of the Mercury space missions.

1964: Japanese Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko arrive in Hawai'i on a 20-hour visit.

1995: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis
tration says the upper-atmosphere ozone layer over Hawai'i thinned to unprecedented levels during the previous winter, subjecting the Islands to higher-than-normal levels of ultraviolet radiation.

1997: Between 700 and 1,000 people march from the Royal Mausoleum to downtown to show their concern over conflict surrounding the administration of Kamehameha Schools. Alumni and parents complained that the trustees of Bishop Estate had overstepped their policymaking role by interfering in administrative matters.

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