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The history of today

NOVEMBER 16


The Nov. 16, 1910, Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported it was likely that the war department would seek additional Waikiki shore frontage on the town side of its present holdings at Fort DeRussy instead of on the diamondhead side. The paper reported that the fear that the department wanted to take in all the frontage from DeRussy to the Moana Hotel "is dispelled in some quarters."
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1886: Elaborate festivities marked the 50th birthday of King Kalakaua. Bunting decorated the balconies of 'Iolani Palace and oil paintings of Hawaiian sovereigns were hung on the palace walls. The throne room was newly furnished with a crimson carpet and foreign decorations received by the king were on the walls of the throne room.

1916: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports that a large portion of the 'Ainahau property in Waikiki will be cut into lots and put on the market.

1979: Federal Judge Samuel King approves a split-up of the $1.51 million beer antitrust settlement here. Under the terms of the settlement of the price-fixing case against five beer companies, retail outlets were to get 46 percent of the money and beer drinkers who filed a claim for the years 1973 to 1976 got 54 percent.

1983: A rolling 40-second earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale causes more than $6 million in damage on the Big Island The quake was centered near Ka'oiki.

1984: A United Airlines 747 with 415 passengers and crew aborts takeoff from Honolulu Airport's reef runway after a tire blew and metal debris punctured a fuel tank, causing a leak. About 35 passengers were injured in the evacuation of the plane, one seriously.


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