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2013 Event - Days after a new U.S.-South Korea military pact, North Korea issues new threats to strike targets in Hawaii, Guam, South Korea and the U.S. mainland

2012 Event - U.S. CEO of Oracle Corp, Larry Ellison, agrees to purchase 98 percent of Hawaii's island of Lanai

2011 Event - In Hawaii, the U.S. commemorates the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor

2010 Event - Hawaii's Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument and Sri Lanka's central highlands are added to the World Heritage List

2010 Event - A bill to allow same-sex civil unions is vetoed by Linda Lingle, U.S. governor of Hawaii

2002 Death - Kam Fong, actor, Hawaii Five-O, dies at 84

1998 Death - Richard Denning, actor, Hawaii Five-O, dies at 84

1998 Death - Jack Lord, actor, Hawaii Five-O, dies at 77

1997 Death - James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90

1997 Event - 1st baseball game in Hawaii, Cards beat Padres in doubleheader

1997 Event - San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals play at Aloha Stadium Hawaii

1997 Event - Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe)

1995 Event - Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)

1992 Event - Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii

1992 Event - Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die and 8,000 injured

1991 Event - Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii

1991 Event - Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992

1991 Event - Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii

1989 Event - NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension

1989 Event - Partial eclipse of the Sun in Hawaii, North West North America, Greenland

1989 Event - Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil

1986 Death - Ellison S. Onizuka, born in Hawaii, Major USAF/Astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster

1985 Event - Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA

1980 Event - Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA

1979 Birthday - Mahana Ka'ahumanu Walters, Miss Hawaii Teen USA, 3rd-1997

1979 Event - 12 degrees F, on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)

1978 Birthday - Brooke Burns, born in Dallas, Texas, model, actress, appeared on 'Baywatch', 'Baywatch Hawaii' television shows, hosted 'Hole in the Wall' television game show

1978 Event - 1st Iron Man Triathlon held, Kona, Hawaii

1976 Birthday - Kona Cormack, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, playmate, Feb, 1996

1976 Birthday - Brian Rocheleleau, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, kayak, alt-olympics-96

1976 Birthday - Jim Farnum, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, kayak alternate for 1996 Olympics

1975 Event - Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii

1974 Birthday - Traci Toguchi, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Miss America-Hawaii 1996

1974 Birthday - Mike Allen Lambert, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, volleyball opposite hitter 1996 Olympics

1974 Birthday - David Buck, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, kayak alternate for 1996 Olympics

1973 Birthday - Melissa Short, born in Kaaawa, Hawaii, Miss America, Hawaii-Top 10-1997

1972 Birthday - Devlin Murphy, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, canoe alternate for 1996 Olympics

1971 Birthday - Clifton Sunada, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, extra-lightweight judoka 1996 Olympics

1971 Birthday - Austin Peck, born in Hawaii, actor, Austin Reed-Days of Our Lives

1971 Birthday - Krista Allen, born in Ventura, California, known for playing Billie Reed on 'Days of Our Lives' and Jenna Avid on 'Baywatch Hawaii', films include, 'Liar Liar'

1971 Birthday - Ku'ualoha Taylor, Hawaii, Miss USA, Hawaii-Miss Congeniality-1996

1970 Birthday - Peter Newton, born in Kailua, Hawaii, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics

1970 Birthday - Wyatt Jones, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, kayak, alternate 1996 Olympics

1970 Birthday - Steve Cooke, Kanai Hawaii, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates

1969 Birthday - Dean Wilson, Kaneohe Hawaii, golfer, 1991 Western Athletic

1968 Event - 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV

1967 Birthday - Nicole Kidman, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, Dead Calm, Far and Away

1967 Birthday - Lauren Graham, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, producer, appeared on 'Gilmore Girls' television series, films include, 'Bad Santa', 'Evan Almighty'

1966 Birthday - Teri Ann Linn, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, Kristen-Bold and Beautiful

1965 Birthday - Debbye Turner, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, beauty queen, Miss America 1990, veterinarian, talk show host, CBS News reporter

1965 Birthday - Jim Schreiner, Kailua Hawaii, kayak alternate for 1996 Olympics

1964 Birthday - Pam Kometani, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, LPGA golfer, 1992 Welch's Classic-27th

1964 Birthday - Cheryl Akemi Toma, Pearl City Hawaii, Miss Hawaii-America 1991

1963 Birthday - Mike Huff, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays

1963 Birthday - Dannette Leininger, born in Kailua, Hawaii, team handball wing, 1992, 1996 Olympics

1962 Birthday - Kelly Preston, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, Mischief, Twins, A Tigers Tale

1962 Birthday - Sid Fernandez, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, pitcher, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies

1962 Birthday - Traci Phillips, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics

1962 Birthday - Joey Meyer, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, professional baseball player, played for Milwaukee Brewers Major League Baseball team

1961 Event - Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 20 weeks

1961 Birthday - Barack Obama, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, politician, Democratic party, 44th President of the United States, former U.S. Senator from Illinois 2005 - 2008

1961 Event - Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii

1961 Event - Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14 degrees F recorded atop Haleakale

1960 Birthday - Ron Darling, Hawaii, baseball pitcher for the New York Mets

1960 Birthday - Alexander W. Dunlap, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, astronaut

1960 Event - Virtually all coastal towns between 37th and 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM

1960 Death - Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67

1959 Event - Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)

1959 Event - Hiram Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)

1959 Event - Hawaii becomes 50th U.S. state

1959 Event - Hawaii's 1st U.S. election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress

1959 Event - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill

1959 Event - U.S. House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood

1958 Birthday - Lourdes Ann Kananimanu Estores, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, playmate, Jun, 1982

1957 Birthday - Margot Chapman, born in Hawaii, vocals, Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight

1956 Event - 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)

1955 Birthday - Lenore Rittenhouse, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, LPGA golfer, 1983 United Virginia Bank

1953 Birthday - Linda Lingle, born in St. Louis, Missouri, politician, Republican, 6th Governor of Hawaii, chairman, 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City

1952 Event - 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii

1952 Birthday - Ed Case, born in Hilo, Hawaii, politician, Democratic party, Member, U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii's 2nd district

1951 Birthday - Dean Pitchford, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, prolific songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, novelist, Oscar, Golden Globe award-winner, wrote with composers Alan Menken, Rupert Holmes, collaborated on songs for movie, Fame, wrote screenplay for movie, 'Footloose'

1950 Birthday - Erin Gray, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers

1948 Birthday - Clyde Kusatsu, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actor, Ali-Bring 'em Back Alive

1947 Event - 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii

1946 Birthday - Ellison S. Onizuka, born in Hawaii, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-51C, 51L-Chal disaster

1946 Event - Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii

1944 Birthday - Don Stroud, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actor, Coogan's Bluff, Buddy Holly Story

1944 Birthday - Takamiyama, Jesse Kuhaulua, Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion

1936 Event - 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii

1935 Event - 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast

1935 Birthday - Kevin O'Connor, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actor, Bogie, Special Effects

1934 Event - All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails to Hawaii and Japan

1932 Birthday - William Smith, born in Columbia, Missouri, actor, Rich Man Poor Man, Hawaii 5-0

1931 Event - 100 degrees F (38 degrees C), Pahala, Hawaii (state record)

1930 Birthday - Don Ho, Hawaii, ukulele player, Tiny Bubbles

1930 Birthday - John Cullum, born in Knoxville, actor, Hamlet, Hawaii, Northern Exposure

1929 Birthday - Max Von Sydow, born in Lund, Sweden, actor, Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape

1927 Event - 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii

1927 Event - 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii

1924 Birthday - Daniel Akaka, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Representative-D-Hawaii 1977 - 1990, Senator-D-Hawaii 1990 -

1924 Birthday - Daniel Ken Inouye, Sen-D Hawaii, 1963-

1924 Birthday - Helen Wedemeyer, Hilo Hawaii, actress, Hawaii Five-O

1922 Event - KGU-AM in Honolulu Hawaii begins radio transmissions

1922 Event - Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii

1919 Birthday - Kam Fong, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actor, Hawaii Five-0

1917 Death - Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii (1891-93), dies from a stroke at 79

1916 Event - Hawaii National Park forms

1916 Birthday - Alex Dreier, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, newscaster, Whats it all about World?

1915 Birthday - John Dehner, Forkum, Staten Is, New York, actor, Big Hawaii, Bare Essence

1915 Event - 1st submarine disaster; a U.S. F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21

1914 Birthday - Richard Denning, born in Poughkeepsie, New York, actor, Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0

1913 Birthday - Iris Adrian, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard

1907 Birthday - Hiram Fong, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, businessman, politician, Harvard law degree, United States Senator from Hawaii, Republican Party

1907 Birthday - James A. Michener, New York City, writer, South Pacific, Hawaii, Space

1906 Event - 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii

1903 Event - Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, President TR sends message

1903 Event - San Francisco - Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use

1902 Event - Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US

1901 Event - Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens

1901 Event - 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes

1900 Event - U.S. annexes Hawaii

1900 Event - Hawaii became a U.S. territory

1899 Event - 1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii

1898 Event - Hawaii formally annexed to U.S.

1898 Event - U.S. annexes Hawaii

1898 Event - U.S. Senate agrees to annex Hawaii

1898 Event - U.S. House of Representatives accept annexation of Hawaii

1896 Event - 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)

1895 Event - 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii

1894 Event - Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B. Dole as president

1893 Event - Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic

1892 Event - Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii

1891 Death - David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies

1890 Birthday - Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii, swimmer, Olympics-3 gold/2 silver-12, 20, 24

1889 Event - Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii

1889 Event - Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii

1887 Event - U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii

1885 Event - 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii

1882 Event - Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco and Hawaii)

1879 Event - 1st railroad opens in Hawaii

1879 Event - Library of Hawaii founded

1878 Event - 1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii

1878 Event - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii

1877 Event - 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed

1876 Event - Reciprocity Treaty between U.S. and Hawaii ratified

1874 Event - 1st reigning king to visit U.S. (of Hawaii) received by President Grant

1874 Event - King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Is Hawaii, is 1st king to visit U.S.

1862 Event - Liliuokalani, queen of Hawaii (1891-93) marries John Owen Dominis

1860 Event - Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in New York City

1859 Event - Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii

1858 Event - 1st bank in Hawaii opens

1857 Event - U.S. occupies Sand, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Is south of Hawaii

1853 Event - 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations

1852 Event - 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii

1850 Event - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city

1848 Event - In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed

1847 Event - 1st theater opens in Hawaii

1847 Event - 1st money minted in Hawaii

1846 Event - 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii

1845 Event - 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii

1842 Event - U.S. recognizes independence of Hawaii

1840 Birthday - Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii

1838 Birthday - Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii, 1891 - 1893

1836 Event - 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii

1835 Event - 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii

1835 Event - 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms

1825 Event - 1st hotel in Hawaii opens

1822 Event - 1st printing in Hawaii

1820 Event - 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii

1819 Event - 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii

1817 Event - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona)

1817 Event - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast

1813 Event - Pineapple introduced to Hawaii

1813 Event - 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21)

1803 Event - 1st horses arrive in Hawaii

1792 Event - Oranges introduced to Hawaii

1779 Death - James Cook, explorer, murdered by natives in Hawaii

1778 Event - Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii









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