Today is Hawaiian Statehood Day. Also known as Admission Day, it commemorates the admission of the state to the Union in 1959.
From as early as 1849, there had been several attempts to make Hawaii a part of the United States.
Hawaii was annexed by the American in 1898, becoming the Territory of Hawaii.
In the 1940s, ballots during elections showed an increasing majority in favor of statehood and in 1959, the U.S. Congress approved a statehood bill, the Hawaii Admission Act. This was followed by a referendum in which Hawaiian residents voted 94% in support of statehood.
On August 21st 1959 (which was the third Friday in August in that year), President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the proclamation making Hawaii the 50th state.
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Today is the birthday, in 1953, of Marvin Isley from American group The Isley Brothers who first came to prominence in 1959 with their fourth single, ‘Shout’, and then the 1962 hit ‘Twist and Shout. The Isley Brothers also scored the hits ‘This Old Heart Of Mine’, ‘Summer Breeze’ and ‘Harvest for the World’. Sixteen of their albums charted in the Top 40. Marvin Isley died from complications of diabetes on June 6, 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEjLFpU2pJ4
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