The era of major tourist hotels started in Hawaii, when the Moana Hotel opened on Waikiki Beach.
The hotel remains in business today.
Cpt. Ralph Van Deman started identity files for Filipino persons of interest, starting what is a basic intelligence methods. He'd go on to become the director of the United States Department of War's Military Intelligence Section. During World War Two, as a civilian, he was an ardent opponent of Japanese internment.
The tanker Atlas departed from Port Arthur, Texas, with 3,000 barrels of crude oil from the Spindletop oil fields, bound for the Standard Oil refineries in Philadelphia, marking the first shipments of Texas oil.
The United Kingdom rejected the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, as amended by the United States Senate, because the Senate voted to fortify any canal built across Central America between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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