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1944 Jul |
Guy Gabaldon (1926-2006), US Marine private, talked some 800 Japanese soldiers into surrendering and following him back to his US camp. In 1990 Gabaldon authored the memoir “Saipan: Suicide Island.” The story became part of the 1960 film “Hell to Eternity.” Links: USA, Japan, Marianas 
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1945 Jul 16 |
The US cruiser Indianapolis left SF with atomic bomb components to be assembled at Tinian Island in the western Pacific. Links: USA, SF, Nuclear, Ship, Marianas
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1945 Jul 26 |
US cruiser Indianapolis reached Tinian carrying the enriched uranium and other parts required for the assembly of the atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy", which would be dropped on Hiroshima a few weeks later. Links: USA, Nuclear, Ship, Marianas
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1971 |
Australia joined with New Zealand and 14 independent of self-governing island nations to form the South Pacific Forum. The name was changed in 2000 to Pacific Islands Forum. Member states include: Australia, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Since 2006, associate members territories are New Caledonia and French Polynesia. In 2011 Guam, the Northern Marianas and American Samoa became associate members. Links: Australia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Guam, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Marianas, Micronesia, Kiribati, Niue, Palau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands
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1975 Feb 15 |
In local elections 78.8% of the residents approved a covenant under which the Northern Marianas would become a US Commonwealth. In 1976 the US Congress approved a covenant whereby Saipan became the capital of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The 34,000 permanent residents became US citizens but could not vote in US presidential elections. The CNMI was allowed to set its own tax, immigration and labor policies. A new government and constitution went into effect in 1978. Links: USA, Marianas
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1986 |
The Chamorros and Carolinians of the Northern Marianas were given US citizenship. Links: USA, Marianas
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1997 Jun 10 |
From the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands it was reported that Gov. Froilan Tenorio and Rep. Heinz Hofschneider had proposed a Parental Choice Scholarship Program that would be implemented in the fall. Every student would get a $1500 scholarship for the school of their choice. Links: Marianas, Education
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1999 Dec 12 |
On Guam a referendum was scheduled to choose independence, US statehood or free association status. Links: USA, Guam, Marianas
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1999 |
On Guam a new strategy to control the brown tree snakes used aspirin, toxic to the snakes, inserted into frozen baby mice. Links: USA, Guam, Marianas, Reptile
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2001 2004 |
US Sen. Conrad Burns, a Montana Republican, received some $150,000 in donations from Jack Abramoff, his firms and his clients during this period. On May 23, 2001 Burns voted against a bill favorable to Abramoff’s clients in the Northern Mariana Islands. The bill would have phased out a non-resident contract worker program benefiting the Mariana’s garment industry. Links: USA, Montana, Marianas
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2002 Sep 26 |
Gap Inc, 6 other US firms and 23 local manufacturers settled a class-action lawsuit over alleged sweatshop abuses on Saipan. The deal created a $20 million fund for back wages and a monitoring system. Links: USA, Fashion, Marianas
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2003 Aug 8 |
A US federal judge ruled that some 264,000 square miles of submerged lands in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth, belong to the United States. Links: USA, Marianas
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2005 Oct 29 |
The US and Japan agreed to step up military cooperation and substantially reduce the number of Marines on the strategically important southern island of Okinawa. The US will move 7,000 US Marines from Japan's Okinawa prefecture to Guam. Links: USA, Japan, Marianas
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2009 Jan 6 |
Pres. Bush designated parts of 3 Pacific island chains as national monuments to protect them from oil and gas extraction and commercial fishing. The areas totaled some 195,274 square miles and included the Mariana Trench as well as waters and coral surrounding 3 islands in the Northern Mariana Islands, Rose Atoll in American Samoa and 7 islands along the equator in the central Pacific Ocean. Links: USA, Environment, Samoa, Marianas, BushGW
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2009 Nov 20 |
In the Northern Mariana Islands a gunman went on a rampage on the Pacific resort island of Saipan, killing 4 people and wounding six others before fatally shooting himself. Li Zhongren (42), a Chinese citizen, was believed to have been employed at the shooting range and left notes indicating personal financial problems and frustrations. Links: Murder, Marianas, Mad Man
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2012 Mar 25 |
"Titanic" director James Cameron (57) made a solo submarine dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific, the deepest point in the world's oceans. On Jan 23, 1960, a two-man crew aboard the US Navy submersible Trieste, then the only humans to have reached Challenger Deep, spent just 20 minutes on the bottom. Links: Marianas, Submarine
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2016 Jul 27 |
In Saipan community members and an environmental group sued the US Navy over a plan to turn the islands of Pagan and Tinian in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands into live-fire testing sites. Links: USA, Marianas, Saipan
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2017 Feb |
Scientists reported that the deepest ocean trenches are loaded with pollutants. Amphilopods, a type of crustacean, captured in the Mariana trench off Guam and the Kermadec trench off New Zealand had levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, once widely used in electrical equipment, that were almost off the scale. Links: Environment, Guam, Marianas
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2018 Mar |
US officials announced settlements with four Chinese construction firms to pay $14 million in back wages and damages to 2,400 affected workers in Saipan. The companies, contracted by Hong Kong's Imperial Pacific International, brought workers on tourist visas, paid them less than required by law and failed to secure proper work authorization by exploiting a visa waiver program that allows Chinese citizens to travel to the Northern Mariana Islands. Links: USA, China, Labor, Marianas, Saipan
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2018 Oct 25 |
Residents of the Northern Mariana Islands braced for months without electricity or running water after the islands were slammed by Super Typhoon Yutu, the strongest storm to hit any part of the US this year. Links: Marianas, Hurricane
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2022 Oct |
An undersea volcano began eruption midmonth in the Pacific waters of the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Links: USA, Volcano, Marianas
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