Post #339767 by The Gnomon on Mon, Oct 22, 2007 6:10 AM

On 2007-10-20 07:56, moondog426 wrote:
The second week in August is when Hawaii became an island...or something like that....another navy grog pleeze.

Wow! I guess just before that it was nothing more than an underwater volcano. Statehood was August 21, 1959. I remember when that happened, plus Alaska earlier in January. 1959 was a great year for me as a kid.