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The history of today

NOVEMBER 2


Henry Davis & Co. advertised turkeys for holiday meals in the Nov. 2, 1893, Pacific Commercial Advertiser.

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1884: Funeral services are held for Bernice Pauahi Bishop. The Advertiser commented on the large and beautiful display of kahili at her funeral.

1887: Funeral services are held for Abraham Fornander, historian and associate justice of the kingdom's supreme court.

1899: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports that Samuel Parker is about to purchase the Humu'ula and Kaoha sheep stations on the island of Hawai'i, which adjoin his 300,000-acre ranch.

1915: Henry Gaillard Smart dies in Charlottesville, Va. His son, 3-year-old Richard Smart, becomes sole heir to the Parker fortune and Parker Ranch.

1919: Methodists formally observe the 25th anniversary of the establishment of their church in Honolulu.

1919: The Waialua Japanese Labor Union, the first organization of its kind to be launched among Japanese plantation workers on O'ahu, holds its first meeting at the Eiraku theater in Hale'iwa.

1922: Lucius Pinkham, former governor of Hawai'i, dies in San Francisco after a long illness.

1931: Mutual Telephone Co. begins interisland telephone service. The Advertiser reported that as of 9 p.m., 181 calls had been placed.

1999: Disgruntled Xerox Corp. employee Byran Uyesugi guns down seven co-workers, committing the state's worst mass murder. He was convicted of first-degree murder and related charges and is serving a life term without the possibility of parole.


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