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This page lists the individual Hawaii year pages. In 1959, the Territory of Hawaii was admitted as the 50th U.S. state and established as the State of Hawaii. [1]
It was once connected to the island of Maui Nui before splitting off about 300,000 years ago. Most of the island is covered by basaltic lava flows. A caldera is located in the eastern part of the island. The last confirmed volcanic activity on the island occurred about one million years ago, though eruptions could have occurred about 10,000 ...
Hawaii began observing Hawaiian Standard Time on January 13, 1896, at noon. [3] [4] On May 19, 1947, the Hawaii Territorial Legislature approved a bill to change Hawaiian Standard Time to UTC−10:00, which would go into effect on June 8, 1947. [5] After the Uniform Time Act was passed in 1966, Hawaii was placed in the new Alaska–Hawaii Time ...
1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade.
This new data indicates that the period of eastern and northern Polynesian colonization took place much later, in a shorter time frame of two waves: the "earliest in the Society Islands c. 1025–1120, four centuries later than previously assumed; then after 70–265 years, dispersal continued in one major pulse to all remaining islands c. 1190 ...
April 18, 1946: The League of Nations closes after 27 years April 11, 1946: The rocket plane X-1-1 makes its first flight April 18, 1946: The United Nations World Court opens at the Peace Palace in The Hague April 22, 1946: U.S. Chief Justice Stone suffers fatal stroke during proceedings. The following events occurred in April 1946:
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The four younger volcanoes are Lāna‘i, West Maui, Kaho‘olawe, and Haleakalā, which probably formed between 1.5 and 2 million years ago. [2] At its prime 1.2 million years ago, Maui Nui was 14,600 square kilometres (5,600 sq mi), 50% larger than today's Hawaiʻi Island.