The history of today
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1924: Honolulu retail mer chants adopt a holiday policy, agreeing to close on 10 days: New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Kamehameha Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Regatta Day, Armistice Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
1924: President Coolidge signs the Immigration Act, which limits immigration to 100 people from each Asian nation.
1935: As massive fleet maneuvers off Hawai'i conclude, a record 166 vessels are berthed at Pearl Harbor.
1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an unlimited national emergency, "which requires that (the nation's) military, naval, air and civilian defenses be put on a basis of readiness to repel any and all acts or threats of aggression directed toward any part of the Western Hemisphere."
1970: Matson Navigation Co. sells its flagship, the SS Lurline, to a Greek company. For the first time since 1887, with the exception of wartime and other brief periods, the Islands were without a ship called the Lurline.
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