The history of today
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1959: Pan American World Airways begins trans-Pacific jet service with a stopover in Honolulu.
1961: Plans for a deep-water port at Campbell Industrial Park are detailed.
1972: Seven Arab terrorists turn the 1972 Olympics into a scene of political murder that begins with a pre-dawn attack on Israeli athletes in the Olympic village and ends 18 hours later in a bloody airfield shootout with German police. Eleven Israelis and a Munich policeman are killed.
1993: The body of former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos is put on a plane for the first leg of the trip back home for burial in his native town. Marcos died in Hawai'i in 1989.
1997: Mother Teresa dies in Calcutta at the age of 87.
2003: The NCAA strips the University of Hawai'i men's volleyball team of its 2002 national championship because the team included a player with professional experience.
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