Today is Friday, April 18, the 108th day of 2025. There are 257 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 18, 1906, the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history struck San Francisco, followed by ...

Library of Congress A great wail went up in Honolulu on August 12, 1898, as the flag of Hawai'i was replaced with an American flag, flapping crisply in the wind. The wail rose to memorialize a ...

When the flag of the Hawaiian people came down in 1898, there was an amazing wailing. The Hawaiian people had done everything in their power not to be annexed by the United States.