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The history of today

MAY 21


There were no further signs of volcanic activity on Mauna Loa, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on May 21, 1916.

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1909: Japanese field laborers at the Wai'anae sugar plantation go on strike. There are now strikes at three plantations on O'ahu and one on Maui.

1912: The only ship in the Hawaiian navy, the Kaimiloa, is beached at Pearl Harbor, burned, and the ashes raked for copper.

1926: Bishop Estate trustees announce plans for a $2.5 million Kamehameha Schools campus.

1932: Thomas G. Thrum dies just five days shy of his 90th birthday. He began publishing the Hawaiian Annual and Almanac in 1875. It eventually was known as Thrum's Annual. He also founded the monthly Paradise of the Pacific.

1944: An explosion on LST 353 in Pearl Harbor's West Loch kills 163. Drums of gasoline, explosives and vehicles of all types were crammed onto the decks and in the holds of landing ships in Pearl Harbor as the military prepared for the invasion of Saipan, just 25 days off.

1945: Hawai'i's "Little Wagner" Act becomes law. It gives plantation workers the right to collective bargaining.

1964: American Factors announces plans for a $60 million resort at Ka'anapali on Maui.

1966: Dr. George Straub, founder of Straub Clinic, dies at the age of 87.

1968: Honolulu police arrest 160 students and faculty members who refused to leave the University of Hawai'i's Bachman Hall. Among the last to be taken into custody was Professor Oliver Lee, the central figure in the controversy between the administration and students. The sit-in and a boycott of classes were aimed at forcing the Board of Regents to accept a Faculty Senate hearing committee report on Lee's tenure case.

1986: Mary Pukui, author, researcher, translator, lexicographer, genealogist, composer and dean of Hawaiian scholars, dies at the age of 91.

1987: The voyaging canoe Hokule'a anchors in Hilo Harbor at the end of its historic 13,000-mile, two-year "Voyage of Rediscovery." Nainoa Thompson navigated Hokule'a the entire trip, which sought to prove that ancient Polynesians could have populated the Pacific with daring and long sails over open ocean using only celestial navigation. The voyage took the canoe as far south as New Zealand.


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