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1935 Pan American Airways 'lands' its first Clipper on Pearl Harbor
1980 The Hokule'a arrives in Tahiti on her second voyage
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1849 The SS Massachusetts is the first steam-powered propeller ship in Hawai'i
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1859 King Kamehameha IV signs the Health Law, setting up a Hospital for Kingdom's people
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1898 War is declared between Spain and the United States - increases the United States ties to
  Hawai'i as the primary refueling and refitting station in the Philippine/Pacific theater.
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1885 Queen Emma Kaleleonalani Na'ea Rooke,  wife of King Alexander Liholiho, passes
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1973 Hilo suffers major earthquake which causes a large lava bench to drop off Puna coast
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1823 The second group of New England Calvinist missionaries arrive in Hawai'i
        1846 The second Organic Act (Mahele) goes into affect - dividing land to ali'i, maka'ainana
                and foreigners.
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1919 Hawaii's first military airport is dedicated
        1932 The racist and controversial Massie rape case ends in a weak conviction - Territorial
                Governor Judd commutes sentance
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1900 U.S. President McKinley submits islands to territorial government by signing the federal
        Organic Act

'Ua hiki ka wa'a. Aia ka honu ma Kamakahonu

This was the Hawaiian throne,
Home of Kamehameha from 1812 to his passing in 1819
Shortly after Kamehameha's death
dowager queen  Ka 'ahumanu
and Kamehameha's son Liholiho
sat for a feast here,
thus breaking the 'ai kapu
a tradition against men and women eating together.

Upon completion of their meal,
they jointly declared an end to the Kapu system,


In the months to follow, there were many social changes caused by the fall of Kapu. Even religion was greatly challenged, mamy statues and temples were destroyed.


Later that same year,
the first New England missionaires arrived in Hawai 'i
The Calvinists frist landing was here, on a group of rocks just west of what's now Kailua pier