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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]
The history of Hawaii began with the discovery and settlement of the Hawaiian Islands by Polynesian people between 940 and 1200 AD. [1] [2]The first recorded and sustained contact with Europeans occurred by chance when British explorer James Cook sighted the islands in January 1778 during his third voyage of exploration.
[46] no change to map: November 13, 1933 A treaty created the Rio Grande Rectification Project, which, from 1935 to 1938, straightened and stabilized the path of the Rio Grande through the El Paso–Juárez Valley. By the end of the project, 174 parcels had been transferred between Mexico and Texas, each side receiving an equal area of land ...
Over the past year, the pandemic led many of us to rediscover the simple joy of the road trip. Though a cherished national pastime, piling into the car for hours at a time doesn't exactly look the ...
City becomes part of U.S. State of Hawaii; 1960 Hawaii National Bank headquartered in city. Population: 248,034. [4] 1961 - August 4: Birth of Barack Obama. 1962 - Honolulu International Airport terminal rebuilt. 1965 - Foreign trade zone established. [30] [31] 1968 - Oceanic Cable begins cable television operations. 1969 - Hawaii State Capitol ...
Bathymetric map of main Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiian archipelago is 2,000 mi (3,200 km) southwest of the contiguous United States. [46] Hawaii is the southernmost U.S. state and the second westernmost after Alaska. Like Alaska, Hawaii borders no other U.S. state.
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted to life early Monday morning with lava oozing out of the ground and causing the sky to glow eerily orange. The eruption began around 12:30 a.m. HST on Monday, June ...
At one time, HawaiĘ»i had a network of railroads on each of the larger islands that helped move farm commodities as well as passengers. These railroads were for the majority 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge, although there were some 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge tracks on some of the smaller islands as well as the Hawaii Consolidated Railway (HCR), which operated in standard 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm ...