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The history of today

MAY 26


The Edison Manufacturing Co. is interested in showing "moving pictures " of Hawaiian scenes and customs on the Mainland, the May 26, 1906, Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports.

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1915: The American-Hawaiian steamer Nebraskan is torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland

1938: Inter-island seamen and longshoremen go out on strike seeking higher wages.

1951: Gov. Oren Long signs several bills, including a loyalty oath contested by University of Hawai'i faculty members, permanent license plates for territorial motorists and establishment of a school of nursing at UH effective in 1952.

1989: The last of Royal Gardens' residents flee as creeping lava from Kilauea Volcano cuts off the remaining road into the subdivision.

1998: The University of Hawai'i is stunned when half the teams in the Western Athletic Conference announce they will quit he alliance and form a new conference, which Hawai'i was not asked to join.






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