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OCTOBER 16


The Oct. 16, 1917, the Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on Charlie Chaplin’s Hawai'i trip.

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1884: Bernice Pauahi Bishop dies at her residence on Emma Street. Her estate was left for the founding of the Kamehameha Schools, which opened on Oct. 3, 1887.

1909: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports that President Taft refused a flower lei from Hawaiian girls at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. "Pardon me, but I am not in Hawai'i now," the president said.

1956: A Pan American World Airways stratocruiser with 31 people aboard ditches into the ocean 1,045 miles southwest of San Francisco while en route from Honolulu. All aboard were rescued. Before the ocean ditching, the pilot had circled over a Coast Guard vessel for four hours, waiting for daylight and smoother seas. The plane's tail broke off and sank within 17 minutes.

1962: The head of the National Parks Service meets in Hawai'i with the 13-member Parks Service advisory board and says work will begin soon on the 17-mile Chain of Craters Road.

1978: Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla is elected pope. Pope John Paul II was the first non-Italian to head the Roman Catholic Church in 455 years.


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