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The history of today

MAY 19


The Pacific Commercial Advertiser printed Queen Emma's will on May 19, 1885.

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1905: Some 1,400 Japanese laborers strike Pioneer Mill Co.'s Lahaina plantation after a worker is severely assaulted by a luna. A week earlier, workers at the Wailuku plantation went out on strike demanding higher pay.

1910: Bishop Museum's trustees abolish the rule that men must remove their hats when visiting the museum. The Advertiser reported that the rule, which was rigidly enforced, was the cause of much annoyance and injured feeling in time past.

1916: Mauna Loa erupts. Its summit was reported to be enveloped by huge clouds of volcanic smoke.

1954: Twenty-two boys escape through the rear door of the Ko'olau boys correctional facility.

1961: Some 17,000 families do not get their home milk deliveries because of picketing at Dairymen's milk and ice-cream plants and another 17,000 did not get their milk the next day. After two days without deliveries, a Circuit Court judge ordered the Teamsters back to work at the two plants. But the workers defied the court order.The strike lasted eight days.
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