The Region - News from Feb. 6, 1987
Renaming of a Little Tokyo street after Ellison S. Onizuka--the Japanese-American astronaut killed with his fellow crew members in the Jan. 28, 1986, explosion of the space shuttle Challenger--was tentatively approved in a 10-0 vote of the Los Angeles City Council. Weller Street will become Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Street.
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