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The history of today

SEPTEMBER 11


The 134-day-old dock strike was costing Hawai'i more than $1 million a day in losses, the Sept. 11, 1949, Advertiser reported.

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1983: Mayor Eileen Anderson and other city officials travel to the North Shore before dawn to halt further demolition of the landmark Haleiwa Theatre. When the wrecking crew arrived at 8 a.m., they were confronted by Anderson, who was backed up by Honolulu police.

1992: Hurricane Iniki, the most powerful storm in modern Hawai'i history, with winds of 160 miles per hour and gusts of up to 200 miles per hour, slams into Kaua'i. Three people were killed and more than 100 injured. Iniki caused an estimated $1.8 billion in damage.

1996: In the first Native Hawaiian vote, voters support sovereignty, 3-to-1. Of 82,000 ballots mailed out, 33,000 are returned.

1998: An extraordinary 453-page document prepared by independent counsel Kenneth Starr and made public by Congress accuses President Clinton of betraying his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws by engaging in a pattern of "abundant and calculating lies" regarding his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

2001: Terrorists hijack four U.S. jets, sending two of them into the World Trade Center in New York and one into the Pentagon. A fourth crashes into a field in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people were killed in the attacks.

2002: The Hilton Hawaiian Village will replace all the furnishings in the mold-contaminated Kalia Tower, hotel officials say.






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