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Created byIan Finley
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Events
1941: Japan surprise-attacks Pearl Harbor,
United States enters WWII1942: Battle of Midway, crushing defeat for IJN1945: Adolf Hitler dies,
Germany eliminated from the war1945: United States drops atomic weapons Japan,
Japan surrenders unconditionally1943: 442nd Regimental Combat Team activated1959: Hawaii officially becomes the 50th state1953: David Kalakaua Kawananakoa, last heir to
the Hawaiian throne, dies.1956: Sputnik, first man-made satellite, is launched
into orbit, space race commences1969: Three American astronauts land on the moon1965: Immigration quotas in the islands
are eliminated1968: Duke Kahanamoku dies1974: George Ariyoshi elected as first
Japanese-American governor of a state, in Hawaii1984: Hawai'i Land Reform Act passes.1986: Chernobyl NPP suffers meltdown1944: Martial law lifted in the Hawaiian islands,
civil rights restored1946: U.S. Supreme Court rules 6-2 that Hawaiian
martial law is unconstitutional and illegal
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