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21st August 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the USA

21st August 2023
Tagged as: Hawaii, United States, USA

Hawaii became the 50th state to join the United States of America after a referendum.

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7th December 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy attack the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor

7th December 2021
Tagged as: America, Hawaii, Japan, Pearl Harbor, Second World War, United States, USA

The following morning, President Franklin D. Roosevelt described the day of the attack on PEarl Harbor as ‘a date which will live in infamy’ and called for Congress to declare war on the Empire of Japan.

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14th January 1973: Elvis Presley makes the first solo headline satellite broadcast in Aloha From Hawaii

14th January 2021
Tagged as: Colonel Tom Parker, Culture, Elvis Presley, Hawaii, Music, Satellite, Television

Elvis Presley became the first solo entertainer to broadcast a live performance via satellite with Aloha From Hawaii.

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21st August 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the USA

7th December 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy attack the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor

14th January 1973: Elvis Presley makes the first solo headline satellite broadcast in Aloha From Hawaii

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

19th September 1870: The Siege of Paris began during the Franco-Prussian War when the city was encircled by forces of the North German Confederation

18th September 1812: The Fire of Moscow burnt out five days after it began, leaving Napoleon in possession of the city

17th September 1862: Explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal in Pennsylvania sees the largest single civilian loss of life during the American Civil War

16th September 1920: 38 people died in the Wall Street bombing in New York

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

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