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Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku (August 24, 1890 – January 22, 1968) was a Hawaiian competition swimmer, lifeguard, and popularizer of the sport of surfing. A Native Hawaiian, he was born three years before the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. He lived to see the territory's admission as a state and became a United States citizen.
The Hawaiian Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian: Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi), was a sovereign state located in the Hawaiian Islands which existed from 1795 to 1893. It was established during the late 18th century when Kamehameha I , then Aliʻi nui of Hawaii , conquered the islands of Oʻahu , Maui , Molokaʻi , and Lānaʻi , and ...
website, history, heritage and culture of the Japanese American experience in Hawaii John Young Museum of Art: Honolulu: Oahu: Art: Part of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Asian and tribal art Judiciary History Center: Honolulu: Oahu: Hawaii's legal history; located in Ali'iolani Hale: Kauaʻi Museum: Lihuʻe: Kauaʻi: Multiple
Duke Kahanamoku handed out golden "Duke" statues to the winners for the first three years before he died on January 22, 1968. [ 2 ] The first native Hawaiian to win the championship was Clyde Aikau, in 1973, followed in 1977 by his older brother, Eddie Aikau .
According to "The Hawaiian Kingdom, Vol. 3," by Ralph S. Kuykendall, the year Kalakaua ascended the throne, the island nation exported $1.84 million in products. By 1890, the last full year of his ...
Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox (February 15, 1855 – October 23, 1903), [2] nicknamed the Iron Duke of Hawaiʻi, was a Hawaiian revolutionary soldier and politician, who led uprisings against both the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom under King Kalākaua and the Republic of Hawaii under Sanford Dole, what are now known as the Wilcox rebellions.
The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands beginning with their discovery and settlement 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 ...
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