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The history of today

OCTOBER 17


The Oct. 17, 1918, Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on the new Diamond Head Road, which was to be opened for traffic on Nov. 1.

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1925: The lot at King and Bishop streets is cleared in preparation for the construction of the Bank of Hawaii building. The Advertiser in 1925 included this account of the history of the site: "... for it was there that the high chief, Abner Paki, one of the great figures of Hawai'i in the middle of the last century, built his home, and where not only his daughter, Bernice Pauahi Bishop, but Lydia Makaeha, later to be Queen Lili'uokalani, passed their childhood." The Arlington hotel was later built on that site and it was there that the "bluejackets and marines from the USS Boston after they landed on Jan. 17, 1893, the day of the overthrow of the monarchy, were quartered. ..."

1946: Waianae Co. Ltd., one of Oahu's oldest sugar plantations, announces it will go out of business and sell its nearly 10,000 acres of fee-simple land.

1954: The last troops of the 25th Division return to Schofield Barracks after serving in Korea.

1979: Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1989: An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale strikes northern California, killing 67 people and causing $7 billion worth of damage.


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