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1909 |
50
YEARS BEFORE HAWAII'S RATIFICATION OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
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The
seal of the City and County of Honolulu in Hawaii, designed
by Viggo Jacobsen, officially adopted by the City board
of supervisors.
- January 4, Honolulu municipal
government in Hawaii inaugurated.
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January
4, Joseph James Fern appointed mayor of Honolulu city
in Hawaii (1909-1915).
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1918 |
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June 22, Charles
James McCarthy appointed governor of Hawaii (1918-July
5, 1921).
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1920 |
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February 20,
Hawaii native Joseph James Fern, two-term mayor of
Honolului, died in office.
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1921 |
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July 21, Wallace
Rider Farrington appointed governor of Hawaii (1921-July
5, 1929).
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1922 |
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1923 |
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March 31, The
railroad bridge over the Wailuku River collapsed, near
Hilo in Hawaii County, Hawaii.
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1924 |
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1928 |
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1929 |
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July
5, Lawrence McCully Judd appointed governor of Hawaii
(1929-April 20, 1934).
- November 29, Lucius Eugene
Pinkham appointed governor of Hawaii (1913-June 22, 1918).
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1932 |
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1933 |
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1934 |
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April 20, Oregon
native, lawyer Joseph Boyd Poindexter, appointed governor
of Hawaii (1934-August 24, 1942). Appointed U.S. District
Judge for the Territory of Hawaii, by President Wilson
in 1917. During his term as governor in December 1941,
the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on the island of O'ahu.
Born in Grant County, OR in 1869, died in Honolulu in
1951, interred at Dillon in Beaverhead County, Montana.
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1935 |
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1936 |
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1937 |
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1938 |
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1939 |
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1940 |
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1941 |
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December
7, Walter Cambell Short appointed military governor
of Hawaii (1941-December 17, 1941).
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December
7, during World War II, Japanese bombed the U.S. Pacific
Fleet and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- December 17, Delos Carleton
Emmons appointed military governor of Hawaii (1941-June
1, 1943).
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1942 |
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August 24, Ingram
Macklin Stainback appointed governor of Hawaii (1942-May
8, 1951).
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June 1, Robert
Charlwoo Richardson, Jr. appointed military governor
of Hawaii (1943-October 24, 1944).
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1944 |
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1945 |
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1946 |
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April
1, A destructive tsunami, triggered by a 7.1 level earthquake,
hits Hilo in Hawaii, killing 159 people in the Islands.
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1947 |
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1948 |
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1949 |
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1950 |
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1951 |
- May 8, Oren Ethelbert
Long appointed governor of Hawaii (1951-February 28, 1953).
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1952 |
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1953 |
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February
28, Samuel Wilder King appointed governor of Hawaii
(1953-September 2, 1957).
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1954 |
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1955 |
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March
22, Sixty-six people died in a major airplane crash
into the Waiianae Mountains near Lualualei Naval Ammunition
Depot in Hawaii.
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1956 |
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1957 |
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September
2, William Francis Quinn appointed governor of Hawaii
(1957-December 3, 1962).
- September 17, The US
misinformed the United Nations, and unknown to the public,
that Hawaii had attained self-government as admitted state.
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1958 |
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1959 |
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March
18, Congress approved Hawaii statehood, the bill signed
into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhouwer.
- August 21, Hawaii
HI, 50th state admitted to the Union.
- December 12, The United
Nations misinformed the General Assembly approved Resolution
1469, noting that "the people of Hawaii exercized
their right of self-determination and having freely chosen
their present status".
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1960 |
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1961 |
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August
4, Barack Hussein Obama, Born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Columbia
University and Harvard Law School graduated, Illinois
senator, the first elected Afro-American (44th) President
of the United States of America.
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1962 |
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December
3, John Anthony Burns appointed governor of Hawaii (1962-December
2, 1974).
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1963 |
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1976 |
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1977 |
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1978 |
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December
12, Jay Dee 'B.J.' Penn, born in Hilo, Hawaii County,
Hawaii. Professional mixed martial arts practitioner.
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1979 |
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1980 |
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1981 |
- January 2, Eileen Anderson
appointed mayor of Honolulu city in Hawaii (1981-January
2, 1985).
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1982 |
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1983 |
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1984 |
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1985 |
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January
3, Frank Francis Fasi appointed second-term mayor of
Honolulu city in Hawaii (1985-July 1994).
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1986 |
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John
David Waihee III, appointed governor of Hawaii (1986-December
5, 1994).
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1987 |
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1988 |
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1989 |
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1990 |
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1991 |
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1992 |
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1993 |
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1994 |
- December 5, Benjamin
'Ben' J. Cayetano appointed governor of Hawaii (1994-December
2, 2002).
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1995 |
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1996 |
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1997 |
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1998 |
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1999 |
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2000 |
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2001 |
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2002 |
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December
2, Linda Crockett Lingle appointed governor of Hawaii.
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2003 |
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2004 |
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2005 |
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January
1, Mufi Hannemann appointed mayor of Honolulu city in
Hawaii.
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