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June 1

• 1977 - Operation Destroy begins on Maui and Kauaʻi. The National Guard-police operation was aimed at wholesale destruction of marijuana plants.

June 2

• 1872 - Henri Berger arrives in Hawaiʻi from Berlin. He led the Royal Hawaiian Band through the reigns of Kamehameha V, Lunalilo, Kalākaua and Liliʻuokalani, the provisional government, the Republic of Hawai'i and the Territory of Hawai'i up to 1916. He composed the music for Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī.

June 3

• 1905 - Gas is turned into the street mains of the Honolulu Gas Company. for the first time and the company's office uptown was illuminated, along with one or two places on Nuʻuanu.

June 4

• 1976 - Hōkūleʻa arrives in Tahiti on its historic first voyage. Some 20,000 people gathered in Papeʻete to watch the canoe from Hawaiʻi and from the past sail into view.

June 5

• 1957 - Gov. Samuel Wilder King signs a bill abolishing the death penalty in Hawaiʻi. The last civilian to be executed in Hawaiʻi was Adriano Domingo, who was hanged on Jan. 7, 1944, for murder. In all, 46 civilians were executed in Hawaiʻi for murder.

June 6

• 1957 - The wing tanks from a Hawaiʻi Air National Guard F-86 fall off while the jet is streaking over the city at 20,000 feet. The tanks land in Papakolea. No one is hurt and the only damage is to a clothesline.

June 7

• 1915 - Charles Reed Bishop dies in San Francisco at the age of 93. He had lived in San Francisco for 20 years. His body was returned to Honolulu and he was buried beside his wife, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop.

June 11

• 1872 - Kamehameha Day is celebrated for the first time. The holiday was established by order of Kamehameha V to honor Kamehameha the Great, who first united the islands under his rule.

June 14

• 1900 - Hawaiʻi officially becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as its governor.

June 17

• 1839 - Kamehameha III issues an edict of toleration giving Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiʻi Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are later established as a result.

June 26

• 1997 - Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (affectionately known as "Braddah Iz"), a Hawaiian musician and promoter of Hawaiian independence, dies of weight-related complications at the age of 38.