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  2. Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    The Hawaiian archipelago is 2,000 mi (3,200 km) southwest of the contiguous United States. [45] Hawaii is the southernmost U.S. state and the second westernmost after Alaska. Like Alaska, Hawaii borders no other U.S. state. It is the only U.S. state not in North America, and the only one completely surrounded by water and entirely an archipelago.

  3. History of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Hawaii residents overwhelmingly voted in favor of statehood in 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Admission Act on March 18, 1959, which created the means for Hawaiian statehood. After a referendum in which over 93% of Hawaiian citizens voted in favor of statehood, Hawaii was admitted as the 50th state on August 21, 1959.

  4. Hawaii Admission Act - Wikipedia

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    The Admission Act, formally An Act to Provide for the Admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union (Pub. L. 86–3, 73 Stat. 4, enacted March 18, 1959) is a statute enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower which dissolved the Territory of Hawaii and established the State of Hawaii as the 50th state to be admitted into the Union. [1]

  5. The true story of how American landowners overthrew the ...

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    Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making.

  6. Statehood Day (Hawaii) - Wikipedia

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    Statehood Day or Admission Day is a legal holiday in the state of Hawaii in the United States. It is celebrated annually on the third Friday in August to commemorate the anniversary of the state's 1959 admission to the Union .

  7. Territory of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory [1] [2] [3] (Hawaiian: Panalāʻau o Hawaiʻi) was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 30, 1900, [4] until August 21, 1959, when most of its territory, excluding Palmyra Island, was admitted to the United States as the 50th US state, the State of Hawaii.

  8. Provisional Government of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Hawaiian Digital Collection. University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Library. Conklin, Kenneth R. (August 2009). "Hawaii Statehood -- straightening out the history-twisters. A historical narrative defending the legitimacy of the revolution of 1893, the annexation of 1898, and the statehood vote of 1959. FULL VERSION".

  9. 1959 in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    The Territory of Hawaii is admitted to the union of the United States as the 50th State. [ 2 ] William F. Quinn is elected the first governor of the state of Hawaii.