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The history of today

SEPTEMBER 29


The Sept. 29, 1906, Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on the opening of bids for a new Honolulu post office site.

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1878: The first Portuguese laborers arrive in Hawai'i on the bark Priscilla. The group of 120 — who were not under contract and paid their own passage — included tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, tinsmiths and blacksmiths.

1961: Keo Nakama, a physical education teacher who learned to swim in a Maui irrigation ditch, is the first man recorded to swim the Moloka'i (Kaiwi) Channel. His time was 15 hours, 37 minutes.

1964: Eight sailors are burned when an ammunition magazine explodes aboard the destroyer USS Sproston at Pearl Harbor.


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