Three Honolulu councilmen recalled.

Twenty-five families occupying Waimanalo Beach Park evicted; protests lead to the return of park lands to the Department of Hawaiian Homes.

First Great Aloha Run attracts the largest participation of any first time sporting event held in Hawai'i with over 11,000 entries.

Former state Supreme Court Justice Kazuhisa Abe steps down as head of the Judicial Discipline Commission after being indicted for conspiracy and theft. While Abe was director and attorney for National Commodities Traders Inc., the company allegedly defrauded investors of about three million dollars.

Murder suspects Gregory Nee, Eric Naone and Raymond Scanlan acquitted of the 1975 killing of Charles "Chuckers" Marsland III, son of the city prosecutor.

Ronald Rewald - would-be CIA agent and self-proclaimed pro-football player - convicted by federal court jury of 94 counts of fraud, perjury and tax evasion and is sentenced to 80 years in prison. Rewald charmed about 300 investors out of millions of dollars with his phony investment firm Bishop Baldwin Rewald Dillingham and Wong.

United pilots end month long strike.

Federal defense expenditures are 17% of the gross state product.

Queen Emma Tower dedicated at Queen's Medical Center.

Hawaii's first test-tube baby born at Kapi'olani Women's and Children's Hospital.

Caravan of ambulances moves patients from Kaiser Permanente's Waikiki hospital on Ala Moana Boulevard to new medical center at Moanalua.

Hokule'a launches a "Voyage of Rediscovery." Read More.

French secret agents sink the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior.

Rock Hudson dies of AIDS.

Hole in ozone layer above Antarctica confirmed.