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The history of today

OCTOBER 3


State health officials suspected the dengue fever outbreak was on three islands, O'ahu, Kaua'i and the Big Island, The Advertiser reported on Oct. 3, 2001.

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1905: Democratic Party leader and two-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan arrives in Honolulu and spends the day sightseeing.

1905: The Board of Immigration passes a resolution to seek plantation laborers from Italy.

1941: Gov. Joseph Poindexter signs the M-Day bill, which sets up a mechanism to provide Hawai'i with an adequate emergency organization in time of war. The new law gave Poindexter absolute power in the event of war. However, martial law was declared on Dec. 7, 1941.

1962: The Advertiser reports that Ahuimanu Investment Co. is planning an 842-acre fee-simple community and cemetery in 'Ahuimanu Valley.

1966: Lyle Guslander's Island Holidays Ltd. announces it has purchased the Royal Lahaina Hotel in Ka'anapali, Maui. Island Holidays became the first hotel firm to operate a hotel on each of the four major islands.

2003: Former Bishop Estate trustee Lokelani Lindsey is ordered to start serving her six-month prison term for bankruptcy fraud immediately after she is spotted in Las Vegas in September despite claims she was caring for her ailing husband in Hawai'i. Lindsey had not been scheduled to begin her sentence until Nov. 3, but Federal Judge David Ezra moved the date up after Lindsey admitted she had traveled to Las Vegas twice in 2003.


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