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There are 122 Hawaiian Islands.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.E3)
Molokai is 38 miles long and 10 miles wide.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.T1)
Oahu is 608 square miles.
(SFCM, 3/11/01, p.86)
5.5 Million BP The main Hawaiian
Islands began to form as the Pacific tectonic plate moved over a
“hotspot” in the Earth’s mantle. The 5 largest islands formed in order:
Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and the Big Island. Molokai and Maui were
originally joined.
(NH, 10/1/04, p.33)
800,000 The Haleakala shield volcano on Maui, Hawaii,
appeared about this time.
(SFEM, 3/16/97, p.28)
200,000 About this time a major earthquake in Hawaii
caused a large tsunami that crossed the Pacific in 4 hours and up the
shoreline of Japan for 300 yards.
(SFC, 2/17/97, p.A4)
100,000 About this time another major earthquake in
Hawaii caused a large tsunami that crossed the Pacific in 4 hours and
up the shoreline of Japan for 300 yards. [see 200,000BP]
(SFC, 2/17/97, p.A4)
c38,000BCE Volcanic activity on Kauai ended.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.T6)
200-300CE The original Polynesians arrived probably
from the Marquesas. They brought with them edible plants and animals.
(SFEM, 2/8/98, p.10)
c600CE Small porkers came to Hawaii with the
Polynesians some 1400 years ago, and big pigs arrived with the
Europeans.
(WSJ, 7/25/95, p.A-6)
c600CE Early settlers from the Marquesas built the
Alakoko fishpond and taro fields on Kauai.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.T6)
c1297 A temple was built near the
Kilauea Volcano that is believed to have been used for human sacrifice.
The Waha’ula Heiau temple near Volcanoes National Park was one of the
first temples built on the islands, supposedly by a foreigner, who
brought brutal religious rituals to the islands.
(SFC, 8/12/97, p.A3)(SFEC, 9/7/97, p.T8)
c1550 A Great Wall was built on
the Big Island behind which refuge, sanctuary and purification could be
sought. Puhonua o Honaunau National Historic Park later marked the area.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.T9)
1758 King Kamehameha was born on
the big island.
http://www.hawaii-cyber-world.com/history/kingkam.html
1777 Captain James Cook, while
exploring the Pacific, reported on long-board surfers in Tahiti and
Oahu and observed that the sport appeared recreational rather than
competitive.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)
1778 Jan 18, English navigator
Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed the
"Sandwich Islands" after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord
Sandwich. About 350,000 Hawaiians inhabited them. Cook first landed on
Kauai and then Niihau where his men introduced venereal disease.
(Wired, 8/95, p.90)(AP, 1/18/98)(HN, 1/18/99)
1778 Nov 26, Captain Cook
discovered Maui in the Sandwich Islands, later named Hawaii.
(MC, 11/26/01)
1779 Feb 14, Captain James Cook
(b.1728), English explorer, was killed on the Big Island in Hawaii. In
2002 Tony Horwitz authored "Blue Latitudes," and Vanessa Collingridge
authored "Captain Cook: A Legacy Under Fire."
(WSJ, 10/2/02,
p.D12)(www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/3521.html)
1780 Captain James King returned
to Niihau in the Sandwich Islands and charted the island’s bays. Mr.
Bligh, later captain of the bounty, was part of the expedition.
(SSFC, 3/20/05, p.D10)
1786 French explorer Jean-Francois
de Galaup de la Perouse set foot near Makena Beach on the Hawaiian
island of Maui.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, p.T5)
1790 In the Sandwich Islands
[Hawaii] King Kamehameha built the Puukohola Heiau temple on the Big
Island near the village of Kawaihau. It was built to the war god
Ku-Ka’ili-moku. The king’s armies soon swept over all the Hawaiian
islands and united the people for the first time.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, p.T8)
1790 Pineapples were introduced to
the Sandwich Islands later called Hawaii.
(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.2)
1790 The Haleakala Volcano on Maui
erupted.
(SFEC, 8/27/00, p.T8)
c1790s King Kamehameha slaughtered
virtually everyone on the island of Lanai (which means day of conquest)
after being thwarted in his bid to conquer Maui.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.T10)
1792 Three English sailors
wandered from Vancouver’s supply ship Daedalus, anchored in Waimea Bay,
and were captured and killed by native Hawaiians.
(SFCM, 3/11/01, p.87)
1793 Capt. George Vancouver
introduced cattle to the islands and wrested from King Kamehameha the
concession that women as well as men be allowed to eat the meat. The
king agreed if separate animals were used. Vancouver called Lahaina
"the Venice of the Pacific" due to a vast complex of canals and fish
ponds.
(SFEM, 2/8/98, p.10)(SFEM, 10/10/99, p.43)
1794 Nov 21, Honolulu Harbor was
discovered.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1809 King Kamehameha conquered and
unified all the Hawaiian islands.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.T9)(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.C5)
1813 Jan 11, The 1st pineapples
were planted in Hawaii (or 1/21).
(MC, 1/11/02)
1815 Henry Opukahaia became the
first Hawaiian to convert to Christianity. He had left Hawaii for
Connecticut in 1808 but died before he could return. His conversion
spurred the Protestant missionaries to come to Hawaii in 1820.
(SSFC, 8/30/09, p.M5)
1816 Sep 12, Russian agents
commenced construction of a Western-style fortress commanding Waimea
Bay on the island of Kauai, named Fort Elizabeth after the Russian
czarina. Before the fort was completed, Hawaiian King Kamehameha acted
to force the Russians out. The Hawaiians finished construction of the
fort and renamed it Fort Hipo.
(HNQ, 6/5/99)
1819 Monarchists defeated
traditionalists at the battlefield of Kuamoo. 300 warriors perished
along with the old Hawaiian religion.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.T9)
1819 Hawaii’s King Kamehameha II
abolished the brutal kapu system of laws. Temples and sacred sites
associated with the system began to fall into disrepair. Queen
Kaahumanu, helped overturn the kapu belief system by sharing a meal
with Kamehameha II following the death of King Kamehameha.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, p.T8)(SSFC, 8/30/09, p.M5)
1819 The first whalers dropped
anchor off the coast of Lahaina, West Maui.
(SFEM, 10/10/99, p.40)
1820 Aug 7, The 1st potatoes were
planted in Hawaii.
(MC, 8/7/02)
1820 Congregational missionaries
from New England arrived. The brig Thaddeus delivered the first
missionaries and Lucy Thurston taught the native women to sew calico
patch work. James Michener later used their story as the focus of his
historical novel "Hawaii." [see 1815]
(Wired, 8/95, p.90)(Hem., 2/96, p.72)(SFEM, 2/8/98,
p.10)
1821 The 1st alphabet for
Hawaiians was prepared by Christians missionaries. The letters of the
alphabet were a,e,h,i,k,l,m,n,o,p,u,w.
(SSFC, 4/4/04, Par p.17)(Internet)
1823 The first New England
missionaries arrived on Maui.
(http://olowalu.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=ig.page&PageID=70)
1824 Sep 23, Captain Richard
Charlton was appointed British Consul to Hawaii. He arrived in
Hawaii and assumed his post in April, 1825.
(Hawaii state archives)
1824 Dec 22, Chiefess
Kapiolani, a Christian, defied Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess, and
lived. Tennyson's eponymous poem celebrated the event.
(www.aracnet.com/~sbvoices/days_dec.html)
1824 John Hayter painted portraits
of Hawaii’s King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamamalu in London shortly
before they died there of measles.
(AH, 10/01, p.14)
1827 Rev. William Richards tried
to stop naked Hawaiian girls from swimming out to greet arriving
sailing ships. The crew of the John Palmer responded with 4 cannon
balls that missed his Front St. home.
(SFEM, 10/10/99, p.40)
1835 Sep 13, Ladd & Co. began
the 1st sugar cane plantation in Hawaii.
(www.laddfamily.com/Files/Hawaii.htm)
1836 King Kamehameha III formed
the Royal Hawaiian Band.
(WSJ, 3/10/05, p.A1)
1838 Sep 2, Lydia Kamekeha
Liliuokalani (d.1917), last sovereign before annexation of Hawaii by
the United States, was born. Lili’uokalani, the last monarch of Hawaii
(1891-1893). She composed Hawaii’s most famous song "Aloha Oe."
(WSJ, 1/23/97, p.A12)(HN, 9/2/98)
1839 Jun 7, Hawaiian Declaration
of Rights was signed.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1839 Congregationalist
missionaries built a wood-frame house in Hilo that became known as the
Lyman Mission House.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.C14)
1840s Leprosy began to appear in
Hawaii.
(SFEC, 9/8/96, T3)
1845 King Kamehameha IV moved his
capital from Lahaina to Honolulu.
(SFEM, 10/10/99, p.43)
1850s Mormon settlers began
arriving on Hawaii. Church members sent money to buy up all the
property on Lanai. William Gibson registered the land under his own
name and refused to hand the deeds over to the Mormon Church. Gibson
went on to become a friend, advisor and cabinet minister to King
Kalakaua.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.T10)
1850-1900 The Hawaii of this period is described in
the 1997 novel "A Map of Paradise" by Linda Ching Sledge.
(SFEC, 8/17/97, BR p.3)
1852 Jan 3, The 1st Chinese arrive
in Hawaii.
(MC, 1/3/02)
1853 A smallpox epidemic hit
Hawaii and 5-6000 people died.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A17)
1858 Aug 17, The 1st bank in
Hawaii opened.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1860 Aug 8, Queen of Sandwich
Islands (Hawaii) arrived in NYC.
(MC, 8/8/02)
1863 Sep 17, The Robinson family
under widow Eliza Sinclair arrived in Honolulu. They had moved to
British Columbia from New Zealand in June, but were advised to relocate
to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).
(www.clansinclairusa.org/articles/march2001/elizabeth.php)
1864 Jan 24, Eliza Sinclair
(d.1892), a widow from New Zealand, paid the Hawaiian monarchy $10,000
in gold for the 70-square-mile Hawaiian island of Niihau. Her
son-in-law, Valdemar Knudsen, later paid an additional 1,000 silver
dollars for 50 acres that were not included in the original deal.
(www.clansinclairusa.org/articles/march2001/elizabeth.php)
1866 Nov 12, Sun Yat-Sen (d.1925),
Chinese statesman and revolutionary leader, was born (trad) to a
Christian peasant near Macao. He attended an Anglican grammar school in
Hawaii, and went on to graduate from Hong Kong School of Medicine in
1892.
(HFA, '96, p.18)(AP, 6/22/97)(HNQ, 6/3/98)
1867 Mar 11, Great Mauna Loa
volcano eruption in Hawaii.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1868 Apr 3, An earthquake
estimated at magnitude 7.9 hit the Big Island of Hawaii. 46 people were
killed in the resulting tsunami at Keauhou and 31 died in a landslide
at Kapapala.
(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/1868_04_03.php)
1869 Apr 30, Hawaiian YMCA was
organized.
(MC, 4/30/02)
c1870 The ukulele, invented by
Manuel Nunez of Portugal, turned up in the Hawaiian islands.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.B3)
1870s Eliza Sinclair bought some
21,000 acres at Makaweli on Kauai Island where water was more abundant
than on Niihau.
(SSFC, 3/20/05, p.D11)
1872 King Kamehameha V asked the
Kaiser of Prussia to send a music teacher for the Royal Hawaiian Band.
Henry Berger, a Prussian military band leader, arrived and led the
group for 43 years. He was later considered the father of Hawaiian
music.
(WSJ, 3/10/05, p.A1)
1873 Belgian priest Joseph de
Veuster, aka Father Demien, arrived on Molokai, Hawaii, to tend the
spiritual needs of the lepers. The Catholic priest spent his life
ministering to the lepers and built homes, churches and moved the whole
colony to a more sheltered area. Damien was beatified in 1995. The
settlement peaked at about 1200. A film about him was shot in 1998 with
Peter O’Toole and Kris Kristofferson.
(SFEC, 9/8/96, p.T3)(WSJ, 8/14/98, p.A1)
1874 Feb 12, King David Kalakaua
of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), became the 1st king to visit US. King
Lunalilo had died without an heir and the legislature elected lawyer
David Kalakaua as king.
(MC, 2/12/02)(ON, 11/02, p.5)
1874 Mar 18, Hawaii signed a
treaty giving exclusive trading rights with the islands to the United
States.
(HN, 3/18/99)
1874 King David Kalakaua built the
Kalakaua Cottage on Maui, Hawaii. It later became the tasting room for
Tedeschi Vineyards.
(SSFC, 8/28/05, p.E4)
1876 Aug 13, Reciprocity Treaty
between US and Hawaii was ratified.
(MC, 8/13/02)
1877 A Hawaiian princess gave a
patch of land, smaller than a tennis court, on Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii,
to Britain as a memorial to Capt. James Cook.
(SSFC, 12/22/02, p.C4)
1879 Mar 1, Library of Hawaii was
founded.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1880s Aubrey Robinson and Francis
Gay, grandchildren of Eliza Sinclair, founded a business partnership
that among other ventures established a sugar plantation on Kauai,
Hawaii.
(SSFC, 3/20/05, p.D11)
1880-1930 The 3rd wave of immigrants arrived in
Hawaii to work on sugar cane and then pineapple plantations owned by
Europeans and Americans. The first workers were Chinese and they were
followed by Japanese, Okinawans, Koreans, Puerto Ricans, Portuguese and
Filipinos.
(SFEM, 2/8/98, p.10,32)
1881 William H. Purvis introduced
macadamia nuts to Hawaii.
(www.hawaiiag.org/history.htm)
1882 Apr 10, Capt. William Matson
sailed the schooner Emma Claudina through the Golden Gate toward
Hawaii. Matson had just founded his shipping company to cover service
between San Francisco and Hawaii.
(SSFC, 2/18/07, DB p.58)
1882 In Hawaii King David Kalakaua
built the Iolani Palace.
(SFC, 6/20/08, p.A5)
1883 Kamehameha Schools were
established under the will of a Hawaiian princess to educate the
children of Hawaii. In 2005 a federal appeals court ruled that
restricting the schools to only native Hawaiians amounts to unlawful
racial discrimination.
(AP, 8/3/05)
1885 Feb 9, The 1st Japanese
arrived in Hawaii.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1886 In Honolulu, Hawaii, a fire
destroyed the original Chinatown.
(SFEC, 8/17/97, BR p.3)
1887 Jan 20, The U.S. Senate
approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
[see Nov 29]
(AP, 1/20/98)
1887 Nov 29, US received rights to
Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii. [see Jan 20]
(MC, 11/29/01)
1887 In Hawaii American
businessmen forced King Kalakaua to sign a new constitution that took
away his power to appoint legislators to the House of Nobles. Members
would hence be elected by property owners.
(ON, 11/02, p.5)
1888 Benjamin Franklin Dillingham,
a seaman from Mass., founded the Oahu Railway and Land Co.
(SFC, 10/28/98, p.A19)
1889 Apr 15, Rev. Damien de
Veuster (b.1840), Belgian priest who ministered to leprosy patients in
Hawaii, died of leprosy. In 2009 Pope Benedict XVI set his canonization
date for Oct 11, 2009. He was beatified in 1995 after the Vatican
declared that the 1987 recovery of a nun of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus
and Mary was a miracle. Audrey Toguchi recovered from lung cancer in
1999 after praying to Damien.
(AP,
2/21/09)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien)
1891 Jan 20, King David Kalakaua,
sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands, died at the SF Palace Hotel of
Bright's disease. The USS Charleston returned his body.
(SFEC, 11/17/96, p.C1)(SFC, 5/29/98, p.C18)(SFEC,
8/29/99, p.T11)
1891 Jan 20, Princess
Lili’uokalani (52) became queen upon the death of her brother. She
fought against making Hawaii a part of the United States, making her
unpopular among those Hawaiians who felt they had more to gain from
annexation. She believed in "Hawaii for Hawaiians," and conceded less
to foreign businesses and governments than her predecessors had.
(HNPD, 1/25/99)(ON, 11/02, p.5)
1892 Jun 18, Macadamia nuts were
1st planted in Hawaii.
(MC, 6/18/02)
1893 Jan 17, Hawaii's monarchy was
overthrown by a group of businessmen and sugar planters under Sanford
Ballard Dole, who forced Queen Lili’uokalani to abdicate and formed the
Republic of Hawaii. This coup occurred with the knowledge of John L.
Stevens, the US Minister to Hawaii. 300 Marines from the USS Boston
were called to Hawaii, allegedly to protect American lives. Queen
Lili’uokalani wrote to Pres. Harrison for support.
(AP, 1/17/98)(HNPD, 1/25/99)(SFEC, 8/29/99,
p.T11)(ON, 11/02, p.6)
1893 Feb 1, The US Minister to
Hawaii, at the request of Pres. Dole, placed the Provisional Government
under formal US protection and raised the US flag over Hawaii.
(ON, 11/02, p.6)
1893 Mar 29, US Congressman James
Blount arrived in Hawaii to investigate the change in government. He
later reported to Congress that annexation to the US was being forced
and that the people of Hawaii supported their queen.
(ON, 11/02, p.7)
1893 Nov 13, Queen Lili’uokalani
met with Albert Willis, the new US Minister to Hawaii, and refused
pardon for the Provisional Government.
(ON, 11/02, p.7)
1894 Feb 7, The US House of
Representatives passed a resolution that prevented the sending of US
troops to Hawaii to restore Queen Lili’uokalani.
(ON, 11/02, p.7)
1894 May 31, The US Senate passed
a resolution encouraging Hawaii to establish its own form of government
without interference from the US.
(ON, 11/02, p.7)
1894 Jul 4, The Provisional
Government under Judge Stanford B. Dole declared Hawaii a republic.
(HN, 7/4/98)(ON, 11/02, p.7)
1894 The Church of the Holy Ghost
was built by Portuguese immigrants on Maui.
(SSFC, 8/24/03, p.C6)
1895 Jan 7, The new government of
Hawaii placed the country under martial law following news of a planned
revolt. Queen Lili’uokalani was convicted of treason and sentenced to 5
years in prison. She was released after serving 2 years under house
arrest.
(ON, 11/02, p.7)
1895 Jan 24, Hawaii’s Queen
Lili’uokalani formally abdicated her throne and swore allegiance to the
Republic of Hawaii.
(AH, 2/05, p.16)
1895 Nov 13, 1st shipment of
canned pineapple from Hawaii.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1895 Nov 26, Hawaiian Sugar
Planters Assn. formed.
(MC, 11/26/01)
1895 Royalists attempted a coup
and Queen Liliuokalani was arrested and imprisoned in her palace.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.T11)
1897 Jun 16, The US government
signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii. The US Congress annexed
Hawaii--without a vote from the Hawaiian people. Nearly 22,000 native
Hawaiians had signed a petition opposing the annexation.
(AP, 6/16/98)(HNPD, 1/25/99)(SSFC, 8/30/09, p.M1)
1898 Jun 15, The U.S. House of
representatives approved the annexation of Hawaii. Some 38,000
Hawaiians opposing annexation signed the "Monster Petition" that was
delivered to Washington by Queen Lili’uokalani. The petition was
ignored.
(HN, 6/15/98)(SFEC, 8/9/98, p.D2)
1898 Jul 7, The United States
annexed Hawaii and acquired Wake Island to complete a set of coaling
stations for ships crossing the Pacific.
(HFA, '96, p.34)(AP, 7/7/97)(WSJ, 2/23/98, p.A20)
1898 Aug 12, Hawaii was formally
annexed to the United States.
(AP, 8/12/97)
1899 Dec, Honolulu’s chief
microbiologist reported that plague had arrived in Hawaii. The
steamship Nippon Maru had docked there in the summer with a corpse that
carried plague.
(SSFC, 12/19/04, p.E2)
1899 The Matson shipping line
began using 266-foot square-rigger Falls of Clyde, built in Glasgow,
Scotland, in 1878, to haul molasses to California and return back to
Hawaii with kerosene. This continued until 1922 when the ship was
demasted and sent to Alaska, where it became a floating fuel dock. In
1963 enthusiasts towed the ship back to Hawaii, where it later came
under the ownership of the Bishop Museum. In 2008 new owners hoped to
save an renovate the ship.
(SSFC, 10/19/08, p.A11)
1900 Feb 22, Hawaii became a US
territory. [see Apr 30]
(MC, 2/22/02)
1900 Apr 30, Hawaii was organized
as a U.S. territory. [see Feb 22]
(AP, 4/30/97)
1900 Jun 14, US Congress passed a
law granting citizenship to all persons who had been citizens of the
Republic of Hawaii at the time of annexation.
(ON, 11/02, p.7)
1900 Efforts to eradiate
plague in Honolulu led to planned fires, one of which got out of
control and burned Chinatown. In 2004 James C. Mohr authored “Plague
and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu’s
Chinatown.”
(SSFC, 12/19/04, p.E2)
1901 Mar 2, Hawaii's 1st telegraph
company opened.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1901 In the 1st Hawaiian
territorial elections native candidates of the pro-monarchy Home Rule
Party overwhelmingly defeated the white leaders of the Hawaiian
Republic. Robert Wilcox was elected as the 1st territorial delegate to
the US Congress.
(ON, 11/02, p.7)
1901 The Moana Surfrider Hotel on
Oahu began operations.
(SFEM, 10/8/00, p.23)
1902 Walter Dillingham, son of
Benjamin, took over the Oahu Railway and Land Co, and launched the
Hawaiian Dredging and Construction Co. It later became the Dillingham
Corp.
(SFC, 10/28/98, p.A19)
1903 Jan 2, The first electronic
message was sent across the 2,610 mile Pacific Cable from Honolulu to
SF.
(Ind, 12/26/98, p.5A)
1903 Jul 4, Pacific Cable (SF,
Hawaii, Guam, Philippines) opened, and Pres. Teddy Roosevelt sent a
message. [see Jul 3]
(Maggio, 98)
1903 Hawaii’s popularly elected
territorial legislature first petitioned to become a state and repeated
the request at least 17 times. [see 1919]
(HNQ, 2/23/02)
1905 Feb 28, Jane Lathrop
Stanford, the wife of Leland Stanford, died of suspected arsenic
poisoning at the Moana Hotel in Honolulu. A coroner’s jury confirmed
the result. Her body was returned to the mainland under the care of
David Starr Jordan, the president of Stanford Univ. An examination by
Stanford physicians claimed no trace of strychnine and set heart attack
as cause of death. A will signed 19 months earlier had left the bulk of
her $30 million estate to Stanford Univ. In 2003 Robert Cutler authored
"The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford." [see Jan 14]
(Ind, 5/26/01, 5A)(SFC, 11/20/03, p.A21)
1906 Gay and Robinson joined other
sugar planters in the California & Hawaiian Sugar Co. with
operations in the SF Bay Area. C&H Sugar took over a waterfront
mill in Crockett, Ca.
(SSFC, 8/31/03, p.I3)(SSFC, 3/20/05, p.D11)
1909 Feb 3, Pres. Theodore
Roosevelt signed Executive Order 1019 which established a bird
sanctuary of some of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
(SFC, 6/15/06,
p.A2)(www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=12526)
1909 Nov 11, Construction began on
the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1915 Mar 25, The first submarine
disaster occurred when a U.S. F-4 sank off the Hawaiian coast.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1915 Aubrey Robinson banned
tourists from Niihau, Hawaii, and severely restricted visits.
(SSFC, 3/20/05, p.D11)
1917 Nov 11, Lydia Kamekeha
Lili’uokalani, the last queen of the Hawaiian Islands, died. She wrote
the song "Aloha ‘Oe" and the book "Hawaii’s Story By Hawaii’s Queen."
(WUD, 1994, p.830)(ON, 11/02, p.7)
1919 The first Hawaiian statehood
bill was introduced. Congressional reluctance to Hawaii’s admission was
based on concern about admitting a noncontiguous state, fears of
excessive Communist influence among unionized workers and Southern
concerns about the admission of pro-civil rights congressmen. Hawaii’s
popularly elected territorial legislature first petitioned to become a
state in 1903.
(HNQ, 2/23/02)
1922 Dole, a Boston businessman,
bought 98% of Lanai for $1.1 million and planted 16,000 acres of
pineapple. He imported plantation workers from Japan, China and the
Philippines.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.T10)
1924 Sep 7, Daniel Ken Inouye,
(Sen-D Hawaii, 1963- ), was born.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1925 Ernest Van Tassel leases 75
acres on Round Top in Honolulu (Nut Ridge) and began a macadamia nut
orchard, Hawaii's first macadamia nut farm.
(www.hawaiiag.org/history.htm)
1927 Jul 12, Thousands of San
Franciscans welcomed Lt. Lester Maitland and Lt. Albert Hegenberger
after their heroic flight from the West Coast to Hawaii. The returned
on the steamer Maui.
(SFC, 7/12/02, p.E9)
1927 The pink Royal Hawaiian Hotel
was built on Oahu in a Moorish style.
(SFEM, 10/8/00, p.23)
1928 May 1, Lei Day, a Hawaiian
celebration, was begun.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1929 Ernest Van Tassel negotiates
with Bishop Estate to obtain 100 acres of land in Keahoe Mauka for
planting more than 7000 macadamia nut trees resulting in the first
macadamia nut farm on the island of Hawaii.
(www.hawaiiag.org/history.htm)
1931 Apr 27, Hawaii recorded a
record 100 degrees in Pahala.
(SFC, 4/27/09, p.D10)
1931 Sep 12, In Honolulu, Hawaii,
Thalia Massie, wife of a Navy officer, accused 5 nonwhite island men of
gang rape. A trial that followed resulted in a hung jury. On Jan 8,
1932 a vigilante group that included the Massie’s killed, Joseph
Kahahawai, one the rape suspects.
(SFC, 5/28/05, p.E1)
1931 Ernest Van Tassel establishes
a macadamia nut processing factory on Puhukaina Street in Kakaako; nuts
sold as Van's macadamia nuts.
(www.hawaiiag.org/history.htm)
1932 Jan 8, Joseph Kahahawai (21)
was kidnapped and killed by a vigilante group following an alleged gang
rape. Thalia Massie, her husband, mother, and 2 other suspects were
convicted of manslaughter in the Kahahawai murder, but their sentences
were commuted to one hour in the custody of Territorial Gov. Lawrence
Judd. They then sailed to SF to avoid a new trial. In 2005 David E.
Stannard authored “Honor Killing: How the Famous Masie Affair
Transformed Hawaii.”
(SFC, 5/28/05, p.E1)
1931 Ellery J. Chun (d.2000 at 91)
designed the 1st Hawaiian aloha shirt for mass-production and sale at
his family’s store in Honolulu. He put a trademark to the aloha shirt
name in 1936.
(SFC, 6/8/00, p.C7)(SFEC, 6/25/00, p.B13)(SSFC,
8/25/02, p.C8)
1935 In Australia cane toads from
Hawaii were introduced to wipe out beetles that were devastating
Queensland's sugar cane industry. The beetles survived and the toads
became a pest and a threat to the native quolls, small spotted
marsupials.
(Econ, 7/12/03, p.38)(SFC, 6/10/06, p.B8)
1936 Apr 18, Pan-Am Clipper began
regular passenger flights from SF to Honolulu.
(MC, 4/18/02)
1936 The Kamehameha Garment Co.
was founded in Hawaii.
(SFC, 11/9/05, p.G9)
1938 In Hawaii the $1.4 million
Shangri La estate of tobacco heiress Doris Duke (1912-1993), begun in
1936, was completed on 4.9 acres east of Diamond Head. Duke collected
Islamic art and in 2002 the estate was opened for limited public tours
and research.
(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.C9)(SSFC, 2/25/07, p.G5)
1938-1940 Eugene Savage painted 6 Hawaiian murals
commissioned by the Matson cruise ship line. They depicted Capt. Cook’s
discovery of the islands and a luau with King Kamehameha. Matson used
the designs on menu covers until 1957. The Kamehameha Garment Co.,
founded in 1936, adopted one of the murals for its “Aloha shirts.”
(SFC, 11/9/05, p.G9)
1941 Jan 16, US vice admiral
Bellinger warned of an assault on Pearl Harbor.
(MC, 1/16/02)
1941 Nov 1, Japanese marine staff
officers Suzuki and Maejima arrived in Pearl Harbor.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1941 Nov 5, Japanese marine staff
officers Suzuki and Maejima left Pearl Harbor.
(MC, 11/5/01)
1941 Nov 28, The aircraft carrier
USS Enterprise departed Pearl Harbor to deliver F4F Wildcat fighters to
Wake Island. This mission saved the carrier from destruction when the
Japanese attacked.
(HN, 11/28/98)
1941 Dec 7, At 7:50 a.m. [7:55
a.m.] Japan launched an aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl
Harbor, the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet, and forced US entry
into the war. They also attacked the Philippines, the Int’l. Settlement
at Shanghai, Thailand and Hong Kong. Relations between Japan and the
United States had been strained for a decade as both nations sought to
dominate the Pacific. Long aware that a Japanese surprise attack on the
naval base at Pearl Harbor could precede war, U.S. authorities were
still woefully unprepared when 363 Japanese fighters, dive-bombers and
torpedo planes sunk or damaged eight battleships and three light
cruisers, destroyed 188 planes and killed 2,400 men in just over two
hours. The Battleship Arizona lost 1,177 men. An estimated 900 were
entombed in the sunken ship. The US lost [18] 19 ships, 140 aircraft
and 2,300 [2,338] lives. In all 2,403 people were killed and 1,178 were
wounded; 187 planes were destroyed and 159 damaged. The Japanese lost
29 planes and 5 midget submarines. The next day, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt denounced December 7, 1941, as a "date which will live in
infamy" as he asked Congress to declare war on Japan.
(TMC,1994,p.1941)(WUD,1944,p.1683)(TL,1988,p.112)(SFC,12/7/96,p.A3)
(SFC12/6/96, p.A5)(SFC,12/5/97, p.A29)(AP,
12/7/97)(HNPD, 12/7/98)
1941 Dec 7, Evidence arose in 1999
that one of five Japanese mini submarines penetrated Pearl Harbor and
hit at least one ship with torpedoes. In 1999 Robert B. Stinnett
published "Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor." Edward
Latimer "Ned" Beach (1918-2002), former Navy captain authored
"Scapegoats! A Defense of Kimmel and Short at Pearl Harbor."
(SFC, 12/7/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/7/99, p.A24)(SFC,
12/2/02, p.A19)
1942 May 30, US aircraft carrier
Yorktown left Pearl Harbor.
(MC, 5/30/02)
1946 Apr 1, Two large earthquakes
shook the Scotch Cap Lighthouse on Unimak Island, Alaska. A resulting
tsunami washed away the lighthouse. The Aleutian Islands earthquake
also triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami that killed 165 people and caused
over $26 million in damages. Tidal waves struck the Hawaiian islands,
resulting in more than 170 deaths. 91 people were killed in Hilo.
(AP, 4/1/98)(Ind, 6/8/02, 5A)(SSFC, 8/25/02,
p.C14)(SFC, 4/1/09, p.D8)
1953 The Coco Palms Hotel was
built on Kauai. It was destroyed by Hurricane Iniki in 1992.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.C12)
1954 Jan 9, Former Hawaii Gov.
Ingram Steinbeck said this is no time to admit the territory of Hawaii
to the Union, because left wing labor unions had an economic
stranglehold on the islands.
(SFC, 1/9/04, p.E2)
1957 The film "South Pacific" was
filmed on the island of Kauai, Ha.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, p.T9)
1958 Charles D. Keeling
(1928-2005), atmospheric chemist, began monitoring the pure air at
Mauna Loa, Hawaii, and the South Pole. Subsequent CO2 readings
indicated climbed steadily and became known as the Keeling Curve.
(WSJ, 12/14/07,
p.B1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_David_Keeling)
1959 Mar 12, The US House joined
the Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii.
(http://modern-us-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/hawaii_becomes_the_50th_state)
1959 Mar 18, President Eisenhower
signed the Hawaii statehood bill. Hawaii became a state on Aug. 21,
1959.
(AP, 3/18/07)
1959 Jul 28, In preparation for
statehood, Hawaiians voted to send the first Chinese-American, Hiram L.
Fong, to the Senate and the first Japanese-American, Daniel K. Inouye,
to the House of Representatives. Hiram Fong served 3 terms.
(AP, 7/28/97)(SFEC, 2/6/00, Rp.10)
1959 Aug 21, Hawaii became the
50th state as President Eisenhower signed an executive order, five
months after he'd signed the Hawaiian statehood bill.
(AP, 8/21/08)
1959 Aug 24, Three days after
Hawaiian statehood, Hiram L. Fong was sworn in as the first
Chinese-American U.S. Senator while Daniel K. Inouye was sworn in as
the first Japanese-American U.S. Representative.
(AP, 8/24/97)
1959 James Michener (d.1997 at 90)
wrote his novel "Hawaii."
(SFC,10/17/97, p.A17)
1959 Martin Denny recorded an
album that typified the Hawaiian Exotica style. Arthur Lyman (d.2002 at
70), vibraphonist, played in the combo.
(SFC, 3/8/02, p.A31)
1960 Jul 4, The 50-star flag made
its debut in Philadelphia. A 50th star was added to the American flag
in honor of Hawaii's admission into the Union on August 21, 1959.
(HN, 7/4/98)(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)
1960 May 22, Chile experienced a
9.5 earthquake. A slow earthquake was detected just before the big one.
It caused tsunamis in every coastal town between the 36th and 44th
parallels with a death toll of some 1000 people.
(PCh, 1992, p.977)(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A11)
1960 May 23, A tidal wave, due to
a 9.5 earthquake off Chile, hit Hilo, Hawaii. It killed 61 people,
wiped out the beaches and destroyed 537 buildings. It went on to hit
Japan.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.T4)(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.C14)
1961 Mar 25, Elvis Presley (26)
performed live on the USS Arizona, a fund raiser for a memorial. Col.
Parker, Presley's manager, came up with the brilliant idea to have
Elvis Presley give the benefit concert in the 4,000-seat Bloch Arena
next to the entrance to Pearl Harbor.
(Internet)(MC, 3/25/02)
1961 Aug 4, Barack Obama, later US
Senator from Illinois, was born in Honolulu to a black Kenyan father
and a white American mother. He lived most of his early life in Hawaii.
From ages six to ten, he lived in Jakarta, Indonesia with his mother
and Indonesian stepfather.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama)
1961 The film "Blue Hawaii" with
Elvis Presley was shot around the Coco Palms Hotel on Kauai.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.C12)
1961 Hawaii created America’s
first state-wide system for regulating land use.
(Econ, 9/22/07, p.46)
1962 Jul 4, KIKU (now KHNL) TV
channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast.
(Maggio)
1962 The film "Girls, Girls,
Girls" with Elvis Presley was shot mostly on Kauai, Hawaii.
(SSFC, 8/30/09, p.M5)
1965 The Rockefeller family built
the Mauna Kea resort on the undeveloped Kona Coast of the big island.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.T4)
1966 The film "Paradise, Hawaiian
Style" with Elvis Presley included scenery from Oahu, Maui and the Big
Island of Hawaii.
(SSFC, 8/30/09, p.M5)
1966 In Hawaii Aloha Friday, a
tradition of wearing Hawaiian fashion, became official.
(WSJ, 1/24/09, p.A12)
1967 Apr-May, The US military
conducted chemical warfare tests, Red Oak, Phase 1, in the Upper
Waiakea Forest Reserve of Hawaii using shells and rockets filled with
sarin gas.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A3)
1968 Sep 26, Hawaii Five-O
premiered on CBS TV and continued to 1980. It starred Jack Lord (d.1998
at 77) and was the longest running police show in TV history. It’s
theme song was "Walk Don’t Run" by the Ventures. Lord (born as John
Joseph Patrick Ryan) was a painter off TV and his canvasses sold
privately for top dollar.
(SFC, 7/11/96, p.D4)(SFC, 1/22/98, p.D3)
1968 The Byodo-In Temple was
constructed at the foot of the Koolaus Mountains on Oahu. It was a
replica of a 900-year-old Buddhist shrine in Uji, Japan.
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.20)
1969 Jan 14, An explosion on the
US carrier Enterprise, 75 miles from Hawaii, resulted in 28 dead and
over 300 injured.
(http://tinyurl.com/64clvh)
1969 A new state capital was built
on Honolulu and replaced the Lolani Palace for legislative and
executive offices.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.T11)
1974 Aug 26, Charles Lindbergh
(72), the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, died at
his home in Hawaii. In 1998 A. Scott Berg authored "Lindbergh." Earlier
Lindbergh’s daughter authored her memoir "Under a Wing."
(AP, 8/26/97)(SFEC, 11/15/98, Par p.29)
1974 Tedeschi Winery began
producing grape wine on Maui.
(SSFC, 8/24/03, p.C6)
1975 Dole Corp. left Molokai.
(SFEC, 8/10/97, p.T3)
1976 May 1, Kawika Kapahulehua
(d.2007 at 76), leading a 15-man crew on a double-hulled boat with
sails, departed Hawaii to Tahiti. Organizer and anthropologist Ben
Finney wanted to prove the trip was possible. The Hokulea reached
Tahiti after 34 days despite issues of ethnicity raised by part of the
crew.
(SFC, 5/28/07, p.D3)
1977 Sep 13, Kilauea volcano began
erupting in Hawaii.
(http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/gallery/kilauea/erz/kiai.html)
1978 Hawaii adopted a master plan
for land use in the state.
(Econ, 9/22/07, p.46)
1979 Dec 12, Clara Haili (b.1901),
Hawaiian singer (aka Hilo Hattie), hula dancer, actress and comedian,
died. She had become famous in the late 1930s for her song “When Hilo
Hattie Did the Hula Hop.”
(SSFC, 8/30/09,
p.M4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilo_Hattie)
1979 Aquanaut Sylvia Earle planted
an American flag on the sea floor off Oahu’s Makapu’u Point on the
deepest untethered dive at 1,250 feet.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, p.T5)
1982 Aug 11, Pan Am flight 830
from Tokyo to Honolulu was bombed. One boy was killed and 15 people
were injured. In 1998 Mohammed Rashid, a Palestinian national, was
turned over to the US by Egypt on charges related to the bombing.
(SFC, 6/4/98,
p.A4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_830)
1982 Del Monte ceased operation on
Molokai.
(SFEC, 8/10/97, p.T5)
1982 Hurricane Iwa hit Hawaii. It
took away the steeple of the 1850s Waimea United Church of Christ.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.C12)
1983 Jan 3, The Pu’u O’o vent of
the Kilauea volcano lit up the skies for the first time and began a
state of almost constant eruption.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.T6)
1987 Oct 31, Joseph Campbell
(b.1904), American writer and professor of mythology, died in Hawaii at
age 83.
(SFEC, 6/1/97,
p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell)
1987 The Westin Kauai was
completed by developer Christopher B. Hemmeter (d.2003).
(SSFC, 11/30/03, p.A29)
1987 In Hawaii 2
millimeter/submillimeter radio telescopes were completed on Mauna Kea:
the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (10.4m) and the James Clerk
Maxwell Telescope (15m).
(Hem., 7/95, p.115)
1988 The Hilton Waikaloa Village
opened on the Big Island. A lagoon with Atlantic bottlenose dolphins
incorporated into the plan.
(SFEC, 4/5/98, p.T6)
1988 The 54,000 acre Molokai Ranch
was bought by Brierley Investments, a New Zealand-based,
multibillion-dollar company.
(SFEC, 8/10/97, p.T7)
1989 Mar 2, Exxon Houston ran
aground in Hawaii and spilled 117,000 gallons of oil.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1989 Sep 28, Deposed Philippine
President Ferdinand E. Marcos died in exile in Hawaii at age 72. He was
the author of 2 books: "The Law of Human Rights in the Philippines" and
"Democracy in the Philippines." Marcos’ corrupt US backed regime in the
Philippines spanned over twenty years. Corazon Aquino was his successor.
(SFC, 8/23/96, p.A26)(AP, 9/28/97)(SFC, 5/12/97,
p.A18)
1989 Oct 28, Twenty people were
killed in the crash of a commuter plane on the island of Hawaii.
(AP, 10/28/99)
1989 A 6.1 earthquake hit the big
island of Hawaii.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.T6)
1990 Volcano Winery was founded on
Hawaii’s Big Island, adjacent to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
(SSFC, 8/28/05, p.E4)
1991 Sep 14, Carolyn Suzanne Sapp
of Hawaii was crowned "Miss America."
(AP, 9/14/01)
1991 Brierley Investments Ltd. of
New Zealand purchased the Molokai Ranch, formerly owned by the Cooke
family, for tourism and real estate development. Plans in 1999 included
1200 new homes on the property. Molokai Island had 6,700 residents.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.T5)
1991 Japanese developers spent
$104 million to develop the Koolau Golf Course on Oahu. The investors
defaulted on their loans and the course was sold at auction in Sep 1997
for 12 million.
(SFC, 2/17/98, p.A1)
1992 Sep 11, Hurricane Iniki
struck Hawaii, leaving at least five people dead and more than 10,000
homes damaged or destroyed. Iniki caused some $1.6 billion in damages
on Kauai.
(Hem., 4/97, p.26)(AP, 9/11/97)(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.C12)
1992 On Kauai the $16 million San
Marga Iraivan Temple was begun under the direction of Satguru Sivaya
Subramuniyaswami, aka "the Gurudeva."
(WSJ, 3/17/99, p.B10)
1993 May 25, In the Philippines
Rogelio Roxas, a coin-collector and treasure hunter, died from apparent
poisoning as he prepared to leave for a court appearance in Hawaii. In
1996 a Hawaiian court awarded the Golden Buddha Corp., a consortium
established by Roxas, $22 billion in damages to be collected from the
Marcos estate for the stolen Yamashita treasure.
(SFC, 10/12/97, p.A18)(www.state.hi.us/jud/20606.htm)
1993 May, The Keck I telescope on
the dormant Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii began science observations.
(www.keckobservatory.org/geninfo/about.php)
1993 Oct 28, Doris Duke (b.1912),
the only child of American Tobacco founder James Buchanon, died. She
left a fortune to her butler, Bernard Lafferty (d.1996). She left $1.2
billion to her Doris Duke Charitable Foundation which took over
management of her Shangri La home in Hawaii. In 2002 it opened as a
museum to promote Middle Eastern art and culture.
(SFC, 11/5/96,
p.A22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Duke)(SSFC, 2/25/07, p.G5)
1993 Nov 23, Pres. Clinton signed
the “Apology Resolution” to acknowledge the 100th anniversary of the
January 17, 1893, overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and to offer an
apology to Native Hawaiians on behalf of the US for the overthrow of
the Kingdom of Hawaii.
(www.hawaii-nation.org/publawsum.html)
1993 David Murdock, chairman of
Dole Pineapple Corp., shut down the Dole pineapple plantation on Lanai
and began transforming the island into a private paradise for wealthy
visitors. He soon built the 102-room Lodge at Koele in the manor of an
English hunting lodge.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.T10)
1994 Dec, Benjamin J. Cayetano was
elected governor.
(WSJ, 6/19/00, p.A47)
1994 A federal jury in Hawaii
awarded 9,539 victims and heirs $1.2 billion in "exemplary damages"
against the estate of former Philippine Pres. Ferdinand Marcos. In 1995
the same jury awarded the plaintiffs $766 million for injury
compensation. In 1996 an appeals court in San Francisco upheld the
verdict. In 1999 a $150 million settlement was reached with the funds
to come from Marcos funds in Swiss banks.
(SFC, 12/18/96, p.C4)(SFC, 2/25/99, p.A12)
1996 Oct, The Keck II telescope on
the dormant Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii began science observations.
(www.keckobservatory.org/geninfo/about.php)
1996 Dec 3, In Hawaii Judge Kevin
Chang ruled that the state had to issue marriage licenses to same-sex
couples (allow gay marriages), prompting an appeal.
(SFC, 12/5/96, p.A3)(AP, 12/3/97)
1997 Mar 10, Paul Markham
Kalanihukinohomoku Kahn (b.1935), scholar, died. He had compiled a
renowned collection of rare books, photographs and manuscripts on
Hawaii and made them available for the Hawaiian National Bibliography.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A22)
1997 Jul 9, Medical, insurance and
pension benefits were allowed to any 2 adults who could not legally
marry under a law enacted to ward off homosexual marriages.
(SFC, 7/9/97, p.A3)
1997 Aug 11, In Hawaii lava from
Kilauea Volcano began to flow over the walls of a 700-year-old temple
believed to have been used for human sacrifice.
(SFC, 8/12/97, p.A3)
1997 Lois-Ann Yamanaka authored
her Hawaiian novel "Blu's Hanging."
(SFEC, 4/25/99, BR p.5)
1998 Jan 21, Jack Lord, TV star of
"Hawaii Five-O" fame, died in Honolulu at age 77. In 2006 it was
revealed that he left behind $40 million to a dozen local charities.
(AP, 1/1/99)(SSFC, 2/26/06, Par p.2)
1998 Jun 25, On Kauai, Ha., a
helicopter crash killed at least 5 of 6 people on Mount Waialeale.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Jul 27, Brown tree snake
experts gathered in Honolulu to discuss the latest strategies for
coping with the non-native snake that threatened the island’s birds.
(SFC, 7/25/98, p.A8)
1998-1999 The Univ. of Hawaii was fined $1.8 million
after an EPA inspection found dangerous chemicals buried for years in
the basement of the Honolulu campus.
(WSJ, 1/117/00, p.A1)
1999 May 9, On Oahu, Hawaii, a
landslide at Sacred Falls State Park killed 8 people and injured
dozens.
(SFC, 5/11/99, p.A3)(SFC, 5/13/99, p.A5)
1999 Jun 16, The Royal Hawaiian
Shooting Club, located on the top floor of the Royal Hawaiian Shopping
Center, was described as an attraction for Japanese tourists. It was
also a testing center for Smith and Wesson and Ruger.
(WSJ, 6/16/99, p.A24)
1999 Sep 17, Japan inaugurated its
$400 million Subaru telescope on Mount Mauna Kea. Subaru is the
Japanese word for the constellation Pleiades.
(SFEC, 9/19/99, p.A21)
1999 Sep 25, In Hawaii a
sightseeing plane crashed on the Mauna Loa Volcano. All ten people
onboard were killed.
(SFC, 9/27/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 2, In Honolulu, Hawaii,
Byran Uyesugi (40) killed 7 people at Xerox company offices. There was
no apparent motive. He was convicted of 1st degree murder in 2000.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A1,14)(SFC, 6/14/00, p.A11)
1999 Dec 10, The state Supreme
Court reinstated a law that allows a marriage license only to a man and
a woman.
(SFC, 12/11/99, p.A1)
1999 The Japan National Large
Telescope (Subaru) and the Gemini Northern Telescope were scheduled for
completion on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. A twin of the latter was under
construction in Chile.
(Hem., 7/95, p.115)
2000 Jul 21, In Hawaii a tour
helicopter crashed and killed 7 people on Maui.
(SFC, 7/22/00, p.A6)
2000 Oct 14, Angelo Perez Baraquio
(24), Miss Hawaii, was crowned Miss America in Atlanta City, NJ.
(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.A2)
2000 Nov, The US ended chemical
weapons disposal on Johnston Island, 825 miles southwest of Honolulu,
after 10 years of operations. The island was turned into a wildlife
preserve.
(SFC, 4/22/02, p.A2)
2000 Dec 4, Pres. Clinton set
aside 84 million underwater acres along the northwestern stretch of the
Hawaiian Islands as a nature reservation.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A3)
2000 Dec 19, Hawaii announced its
rules for medical marijuana effective Dec 28. Certified patients would
be allowed possession of up to 3 ounces and allowed to grow up to 7
plants.
(SFC, 12/20/00, p.C2)
2001 Feb 13, In Hawaii 2 Army
Blackhawk helicopters crashed and 6 soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 2/14/01, p.A6)
2001 Apr 5, Public school teachers
went on strike and 180,000 children were kept from classrooms. The
strike also hit the 10-campus Univ. of Hawaii.
(SFC, 4/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Apr 24, The union
representing school teachers agreed to a new labor contract. 182,000
school children planned to return to school Apr 26.
(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A5)
2001 May, The new 453-room Waikiki
Tower opened in Honolulu. Mildew of the eurotium mold group was
discovered in 2002 and Hilton spent $55 million on a year-long cleanup.
(SFC, 8/15/03, p.B3)
2001 Nov 23, It was reported that
Hawaii’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s sex offender
registration law, declaring it unconstitutional.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A21)
2001 Dec 19, It was reported that
93 official cases of dengue fever had been confirmed in Hawaii, with
most of them in Maui. The dengue virus had not been seen in Hawaii
since 1943.
(WSJ, 12/19/01, p.B1,4)
2001 The Hawaiian Kingdom
Government was founded in Honolulu as a native organization claiming
sovereignty over the Hawaiian Islands.
(SFC, 6/20/08, p.A5)
2002 Sep 28, Patsy Mink (74),
Hawaii state representative, died in Honolulu.
(WSJ, 9/30/02, p.A1)
2003 Oct 23, President Bush
concluded his Pacific trip with a visit to Hawaii, where he dropped
flowers into the water at the sunken battleship USS Arizona.
(AP, 10/23/08)
2003 The POW/MIA Accounting group,
tasked with accounting for US war veterans, was formed. Headquarters
was established at Hickam Air Force Base in Oahu, Hawaii.
(SFC, 10/21/05, p.B10)
2004 Jan 15, The Hawaii Government
Employees Assoc. said it would oppose Gov. Lingle's plan to break up
the state Dept. of Education into 7 locally-elected school boards.
(USAT, 1/16/04, p.10A)
2004 May 30, In Hawaii lava from
the Kilauea eruption, which began Jan. 3, 1983, reached the ocean for
the first time in nearly a year on May 30.
(AP, 6/12/04)
2004 Aug 18, Hiram L. Fong (97),
Hawaii's first U.S. senator, died.
(AP, 8/18/05)
2005 Mar 2, Martin Denny, creator
of the tiki lounge music called “exotica,” died in Honolulu. His 38
albums reflected a fusion of Asian, South Pacific, American jazz ,
Latin American and classical music.
(SFC, 3/8/05, p.B5)
2005 Apr, It was reported that the
US Fish & Wildlife Service listed 317 species, including 273
plants, as threatened or endangered in Hawaii. Local environmentalists
blamed pollution from cruise ships and tourists.
(Econ, 4/9/05, p.24)
2005 Aug 2, A federal appeals
court ruled that a 117-year-old policy of admitting only Native
Hawaiians to the exclusive Kamehameha Schools amounts to unlawful
racial discrimination.
(AP, 8/3/05)
2005 Aug 24, Hawaii planned caps
on rising gas prices effective Sep 1.
(WSJ, 8/25/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 28, West Oahu of Ewa
Beach, Hawaii, won the Little League World Series title with a 7-6 win
over the defending champions from Willemstad, Curacao.
(AP, 8/28/06)
2005 Sep 2, The National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded the University of Hawaii a
grant of nearly $25 million for the construction of a regional
biocontainment laboratory. The lab will conduct biodefense and emerging
infectious disease research.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2006 Mar 14, In Hawaii an
1890s-era plantation dam failed in the rugged hills above northern
Kauai, sending water and mud surging through two homes and wiping out
the only highway. Searchers found one person dead and were looking for
at least seven others, some of them children who hadn't been seen since
the deluge. The torrent of water killed seven people.
(AP, 3/15/06)(AP, 3/14/07)
2006 May 8, Hawaii abandoned
gas-price controls after 8 months.
(WSJ, 5/9/06, p.A1)
2006 Jun 15, Pres. Bush announced
plans to designate a new marine sanctuary in the area of the
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands encompassing nearly 140,000 square miles.
The plan for Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, the nation’s
14th marine sanctuary, would end fishing in the area within 5 years.
Formal designation was about a year away.
(SFC, 6/15/06, p.A2)(WSJ, 6/16/06, p.A1)(Econ,
1/10/09, p.70)
2006 Jun 27, A US federal court in
Hawaii authorized partial compensation of $2,000 each to about 7,500
victims of human rights abuses under late Philippine dictator Ferdinand
Marcos.
(AP, 6/28/06)
2006 Jul 3, A US federal judge
issued a temporary retraining order barring the Navy from using a type
of high-intensity sonar that could harm marine animals during war games
that began last week in the Pacific Ocean. On July 7 the US Navy and
environmental groups agreed on a settlement which prevented the Navy
from using the sonar within 25 miles of the newly established
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument during the
exercises.
(SFC, 7/3/06, p.A3)(SFC, 7/8/06, p.A4)
2006 Oct 15, A 6.7-magnitude quake
hit Hawaii’s Big Island at 7:07 am, followed by aftershocks. It caused
blackouts and landslides but no reported fatalities. Structural damages
on the Big Island were later estimated at $100 million.
(AP, 10/16/06)(SSFC, 10/22/06, p.G2)
2006 Oct 19, In Hawaii the 10th
annual fundraising parody Underpants Run was held in Kailua-Kona on the
Big Island.
(SSFC, 10/22/06, p.G2)
2006 Nov 16, In Hawaii a limited
smoking ban went into effect covering enclosed or partially enclosed
public areas.
(SSFC, 1/7/07, p.G2)
2007 Mar 8, In Hawaii a tour
helicopter crashed at an airport on the island of Kauai, killing four
people and critically injuring three.
(AP, 3/9/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Hawaii a tour
helicopter crashed on Kauai and one person was killed. This was the 2nd
fatal copter crash on the island in 4 days.
(SFC, 3/12/07, p.A3)
2007 Mar 22, In Hawaii Dorie-Ann
Kahale and her five daughters moved from a homeless shelter to a
mansion, courtesy of billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto, a Japanese real
estate mogul, who is handing over eight of his multimillion-dollar
homes to low-income Native Hawaiian families. Asked whether he was
concerned about losing money on the effort, he laughed and said: "This
is pocket money for me."
(AP, 3/23/07)
2007 Apr 14, Legendary crooner Don
Ho (76) died in Hawaii. He had entertained tourists for decades wearing
raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing his signature tune "Tiny
Bubbles."
(AP, 4/15/07)
2007 Jun 9, The Hawaiian canoe
Hokulea sailed into the Japanese port of Yokohama, completing a
five-month journey of more than 8,500 miles across the Pacific.
(AP, 6/9/07)
2007 Aug 26, The $95 million
Hawaii Superferry made its maiden run from Honolulu to Maui as
environmentalists protested. The 349-foot giant catamaran, named
Alakai, carried over 500 passengers and 150 cars for the 3-hour trip.
The special one-way $5 fares will soon rise to over $240 for one
passenger and a car.
(SFC, 8/27/07, p.A4)
2007 Oct 9, A Maui judge said he
would not allow the Hawaii Superferry to sail between Honolulu and
Kahului while the state studies the environmental impact of interisland
service.
(SFC, 10/10/07, p.A3)
2007 Oct 31,
In Hawaii state lawmakers voted to allow the new inter-island
ferry to resume service. The Superferry law overrode court decisions
requiring an environmental study.
(SFC, 11/1/07, p.A4)
2008 Feb 19, Barack Obama won
Wisconsin (58%) and Hawaii (76%) adding to a primary season winning
streak that now totals 10. This put Hillary Rodham Clinton into a
virtual must-win scenario in Democratic contests coming early next
month in Texas and Ohio.
(AP, 2/20/08)(SFC, 2/21/08, p.A10)
2008 Mar 31, Hawaii’s Aloha
Airlines ended passenger service after today due to competition and
rising fuel prices.
(SFC, 3/31/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 15, It was reported that
Hawaii’s Oahu island planned to export some 100,000 tons of trash a
year to the mainland. At current rates its 200-acre municipal landfill
would reach capacity in 15 years. Expanded recycling and a new boiler
were also in the works.
(WSJ, 7/15/08, p.A2)
2008 Aug 27, In Honolulu Marcus
Eriksen and fellow eco-mariner Joel Paschal celebrated the end of their
2,600-mile voyage on what they call the JUNK raft. They had spent three
months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise
awareness of ocean debris. Research suggested that every square
kilometer of the ocean has an average of 13,000 pieces of plastic
floating in it. The floating portion was thought to make up only 15% of
marine litter.
(AP, 8/28/08)(Econ, 2/28/09, SR p.9)
2008 Sep 1, Roz Savage arrived in
Waikiki, Ha., after rowing 99 days from SF, Ca. The English-born woman
hoped to become the first woman to row alone across the Pacific Ocean
with the goal of raising awareness of the amount of plastic pollution
in the ocean.
(SFC, 9/2/08, p.B2)
2008 Sep 4, A US coast Guard
helicopter went down off Oahu, Ha., killing 4 crew members.
(SFC, 9/6/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 10, Frank Mundus (1925),
the legendary shark fisherman said to have inspired the Captain Quint
character in the movie "Jaws," died in Honolulu.
(AP, 9/15/08)
2008 Oct 16, Hawaii state
officials said they will stop giving health coverage to the 2,000
children enrolled by Nov. 1, but private partner Hawaii Medical Service
Association will pay to extend their coverage through the end of the
year without government support. Hawaii lawmakers had approved the
health plan in 2007 as a way to ensure every child can get basic
medical help.
(AP, 10/17/08)
2008 Dec 2, Hawaii unveiled plans
to be first in the nation to roll out electric car stations statewide,
a move Gov. Linda Lingle hailed as a major step toward weaning
the islands off oil.
(AP, 12/3/08)
2008 Dec 6, The Univ. of Hawaii
activated the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System
(PS1) to search for dangerous asteroids.
(Econ, 12/6/08, p.100)
2008 Dec 22, Alfred Shaheen
(b.1922), the dean of Hawaiian couture, died. In 1948 he started
manufacturing rayon Hawaiian shirts in a Quonset hut left over from the
war. Within a decade annual revenue grew to $4 million.
(WSJ, 1/24/09, p.A12)
2008 Dec 26, In Hawaii a power
failure during a thunderstorm blacked out Oahu’s population of about
900,000 people and thousands of tourists including vacationing
President-elect Barack Obama.
(AP, 12/27/08)
2009 Mar 16, Hawaii’s
Supreme Court rejected a state law that allowed the Hawaii Superferry
to operate while an environmental study is being conducted forcing the
inter-island ferry service to cease operations.
(AP, 3/17/09)
2009 Mar 19, A report issued by
the US Interior Department said one-third of the nation's endangered
birds are in Hawaii. 31 Hawaiian bird species were listed as
endangered, more than anywhere else in the country. The native birds
were threatened by the destruction of their habitats by invasive plant
species and feral animals like pigs, goats and sheep, habitat loss and
insect born diseases. The report also said energy production of all
types — wind, ethanol and mountaintop coal mining — was contributing to
steep drops in bird populations.
(AP, 3/20/09)
2009 Jun 1, Hawaii’s Gov. Linda
Lingle, describing a "fiscal emergency," ordered three days of unpaid
furloughs each month for 14,500 state employees to help erase a $729
million budget shortfall.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2008 Gary Y. Okihiro authored
“Island World: A History of Hawaii and the United States.”
(WSJ, 10/17/08, p.A11)
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