Hawaii Admission Day

Hawaii Admission Day
Also called Statehood Day
Observed by Hawaii
Significance Admission of Hawaii into the Union.
Date Third Friday in August
2014 date August 15
2015 date August 21
2016 date August 19
2017 date August 18
Frequency annual
Related to Independence Day

Admission Day or Statehood Day is a legal holiday in the state of Hawaii in the United States. It is celebrated annually on the third Friday in August to commemorate the anniversary of the 1959 admission of Hawaii into the Union. It was first celebrated in 1969.[1]

Statehood bills for Hawaii were introduced into the U.S. Congress as early as 1919 by Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, the non-voting delegate sent by the Territory of Hawaii to the U.S. Congress. Additional bills were introduced in 1935, 1947 and 1950. In 1959, the U.S. Congress approved the statehood bill, the Hawaii Admission Act. This was followed by a referendum in which Hawaiian residents voted 94% in support of statehood (the ballot question was: "Shall Hawaii immediately be admitted into the Union as a state?"), and on August 21, 1959 (the third Friday in August), President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation making Hawaii the 50th state.

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  1. ↑ "Statehood Day: Hawaii’s Most Controversial Holiday". Perfect Days Hawaii. Retrieved December 29, 2014.