The history of today MAY 16

	On May 16, 1885, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser printed the Order of Procession for Queen Emma's funeral.

1890: A committee formed by Oahu Railway and Land Company unanimously selects the name Pearl City for "the town recently laid out at 'Ewa."

1954: The Advertiser reports the number of television sets in use in Honolulu may now total 40,000. Television had been on the air for 18 months in Hawai'i and there were three television broadcasting stations. Some 20 brands of television sets were available.

1974: University of Hawai'i Chancellor Wytze Gorter resigns over the way the UH Board of Regents handled contract negotiations with football coach Larry Price. Acting without administration recommendation or approval, the board voted to add three years to Price's contract.

1975: The Russian oceanographic research ship Dmitri Mendeleev leaves Honolulu for its home port of Vladivostok 28 hours late and minus one of its scientists. A 27-year-old geophysicist on the vessel had defected while here.

1985: United Airlines' pilots go on strike. At the time, United carried more passengers between Hawai'i and the Mainland than all other airlines combined.

1997: Brook Mahealani Lee of Pearl City is crowned Miss Universe.

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