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The history of today

MAY 17


The May 17, 1898, Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on the start of a sugar plantation on Moloka'i.

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1940: The University of Hawai'i Board of Regents fires Otto Klum, who had been head football coach for 19 years.

1947: The battle-scarred former battleship Oklahoma, veteran of two world wars, sinks while being towed to Honolulu.

1949: Some 10,000 people rally at Kapi'olani Park to protest the dock strike than began May 1.

1956: Lihue Plantation announces it will revamp its fields and its mill grounds to convert from rail to truck hauling. The Kaua'i plantation is the last in the Islands to make the change from railroad hauling of harvested sugarcane.

1974: Three more University of Hawai'i administrators resign in a crisis over who runs the university — the Board of Regents or the UH president and his administration.

1985: A leaking valve in a 70,000-gallon storage tank used by Brewer Chemical Co. to hold liquid ammonia sends pungent fumes through the Kahului commercial area and forces the evacuation of hotels, shopping centers and homes. Two Brewer workers are slightly injured.

1989: Compelled by public disclosure requirements in federal tax law, Bishop Estate trustees reveal that they were paid $1.57 million each in 1986-88 commissions and voluntarily waived another $1 million each during the same two-year period.

1993: State House Speaker Joseph Souki reveals that a private company has found three electronic listening devices when the company made a sweep of his State Office Tower office during the crucial final days of the legislative session. Four electronic listening devices are also found in House Finance Committee Chairman Calvin Say's office.

2005: The Rev. Larry Silva is named bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.


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