This Day in History: Hawaii Becomes 50th State

This Day in History:
Hawaii Becomes 50th State.
August 21, 1959.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower
signed the proclamation that
admitted the series of
Pacific islands to the Union.
Polynesian explorers are
thought to have first settled
on the island in the eighth century.
The last reigning monarch,
Queen Liliuokalani, was
deposed by a group of U.S. Marines
and American expatriates in 1893.
Hawaii was officially
annexed by the U.S. in 1898,
following the Spanish-American War.
A important region strategically
and for the sugar industry, the volcanic
islands became a territory in 1900.
Following the bombing of
Pearl Harbor in 1941, Hawaii
became firmly established
in the American identity