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The Honolulu Advertiser
The history of today

SEPTEMBER 24


The Sept. 23, 1889, Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on a luau in Waiçalae given by Paul Isenberg Jr. for the Stars and Honolulu baseball clubs.

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1909: A 20-minute meteor shower lights up the night sky. The Advertiser described it as a "display of fireworks of the most spectacular sort."

1951: Six O'ahu Prison inmates are dead after drinking punch spiked with cleaning fluid for prison duplicating machines. Another 36 inmates are hospitalized.

1961: A small new lava fountain breaks in the ridge above Pahoa.

1971: Kilauea Volcano erupts, sending curtains of lava gushing at least 250 feet into the air.

1977: Robert McElrath, ILWU regional director, surprises delegates in the final session of the union's convention with the announcement he would retire in June 1978 after 30 years as a labor organizer and leader in Hawai'i.


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