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Eisenhower", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 600, "year_label": "600 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Early settlers from the Marquesas build the Alakoko fishpond and taro fields on Kauai, Hawaii.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751689#Pacific_Ocean", "title": "600", "revid": 1364751689, "section": "Events › By place › Pacific Ocean"}}, {"year": 1420, "year_label": "1420 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 31", "text": "August 31 – A 9.4 M S -strong earthquake shakes Chile's Atacama Region, causing tsunamis in Chile, as well as Hawaii and Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365937924#July–September", "title": "1420", "revid": 1365937924, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1851, "year_label": "1851 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "June 2", "text": "June 2 – Castle & Cooke, the predecessor of Dole Food Company, is founded in Hawaii.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358777790#April–June", "title": "1851", "revid": 1358777790, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1852, "year_label": "1852 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "In Hawaii, sugar planters bring over the first Chinese laborers on 3- or 5-year contracts, giving them 3 dollars per month plus room and board for working a 12-hour day, 6 days a week.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354165010#Date_unknown", "title": "1852", "revid": 1354165010, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1871, "year_label": "1871 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – One of the few known major hurricanes to strike Hawaii causes significant damage on the islands of Hawaii and Maui.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368649173#July–September", "title": "1871", "revid": 1368649173, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1885, "year_label": "1885 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February 9", "text": "February 9 – The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366156062#February", "title": "1885", "revid": 1366156062, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1891, "year_label": "1891 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 29", "text": "January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369994059#January", "title": "1891", "revid": 1369994059, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 17", "text": "January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#January", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1898, "year_label": "1898 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 7", "text": "July 7 – The United States annexes the Hawaiian Islands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367547011#July", "title": "1898", "revid": 1367547011, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 20", "text": "February 20 – The Hawaii Territory Legislature convenes for the first time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318021#February", "title": "1901", "revid": 1373318021, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1959, "year_label": "1959 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Hawaii Admission Act, granting statehood to Hawaii.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370221732#March", "title": "1959", "revid": 1370221732, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1968, "year_label": "1968 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 8", "text": "March 8 – The Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sinks with all 98 crew members, about 90 nautical miles (104 miles or 167 km) southwest of Hawaii.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310387#March–April", "title": "1968", "revid": 1371310387, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 14", "text": "January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#January", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1991, "year_label": "1991 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "July 11", "text": "July 11 – A solar eclipse of record totality occurs in the Northern hemisphere and is witnessed by hundreds of millions of people in Hawaii, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371487470#July", "title": "1991", "revid": 1371487470, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1994, "year_label": "1994 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – Tyke, a female African bush elephant, injures her groomer and kills her trainer at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. She then escapes the arena, and runs amok in the streets for half an hour, before police officers shoot her 86 times. She eventually collapses from her wounds and dies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369917016#August", "title": "1994", "revid": 1369917016, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2018, "year_label": "2018 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 13", "text": "January 13 — At 8:08 AM HST, an inbound missile alert was accidentally issued via the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert System over television, radio, and cellular networks in the U.S. state of Hawaii. 38 minutes later, the alert was confirmed as false by state officials, and blamed a miscommunicated drill at the HI-EMA.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373090883#January", "title": "2018", "revid": 1373090883, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2018, "year_label": "2018 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "May 3", "text": "May 3 – The 2018 lower Puna eruption causes destruction of structures and forces thousands of residents of Hawaii to evacuate as lava floods the land.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373090883#May", "title": "2018", "revid": 1373090883, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 2023, "year_label": "2023 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 8", "text": "August 8 – 2023 Hawaii wildfires: 17,000 acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372811827#August", "title": "2023", "revid": 1372811827, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2025, "year_label": "2025 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "July 30", "text": "July 30 – An 8.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings in Japan and Hawaii.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372865033#July", "title": "2025", "revid": 1372865033, "section": "Events › July"}}]}