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The history of today

SEPTEMBER 4


The Salvation Army was headed to Hawai'i, the Sept. 4, 1894, Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported.

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1880: High Chiefess Fanny Kekuiapoiwa Kekelaokalani Young, mother of Queen Emma, dies. She was 76.

1889: Oahu Railway and Land Co.'s first train, a Baldwin locomotive and two excursion cars, makes its first run.

1978: Fifty-one Hawaiian protesters are arrested and charged with entering a restricted area during a demonstration in which they pushed their way onto the Hilo Airport runway after a series of confrontations with National Guard troops and Big Island police. The airport was closed for about 40 minutes. The protesters accused the state of taking 92 acres of Hawaiian Homestead land for the Hilo Airport runway and terminal.

1988: Hurricane Uleki does not hit Hawai'i, but three people drown in surf churned up by the storm.

1989: Aaron "Buck" Buchwach, retired editor in chief of The Advertiser, dies at the age of 68. The Advertiser noted that he was one of Hawai'i's toughest and most effective journalists.




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