The history of today SEPTEMBER 19

	A San Francisco collector was seeking Hawaiian stamps in this ad in the Sept. 19, 1893, Pacific Commercial Advertiser.

1954: The Advertiser reports that nearly a mile of "luxurious sandy beach" will begin taking definite shape at Ala Moana Park within a few months.

1962: A huge boulder crashes into an 'Aina Haina home. Three people escape.

1963: A 13-year-old boy stows away on a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu to Maui. He is the first known stowaway on a commercial flight in the Islands.

1969: The Advertiser reports that Dow Chemical Co. conducted defoliation tests in the Big island's Waiakea Forest Reserve about three miles from where the Army held four nerve gas tests in 1966 and 1967. The tests were to demonstrate whether the defoliant would work in a jungle environment. Defoliation was used in the Vietnam War.

1994: The temperature hits 95 degrees at Honolulu Airport, setting a record. The weather service began keeping records for Honolulu in 1948. The previous high was 94 in 1988.

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