Looks like a few people have tried to tackle this :D
Mine's a little goofier
365 days of tiki
1/2 Drinking straw patented 1888
1/8 Elvis Presley’s birthday 1935
1/11 First discotheque opens in US 1963, death of tiki
1/14 Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite 1973 Elvis Concert
1/16 18th Amendment starts prohibition 1919
1/17 National Hot Buttered Rum Day
1/20 International Hat Day
1/22 death of Duke Kahanamoku 1968
1/26 Anniversary of the Australian Rum Rebellion 1808
1/27 Water Conservation Day
2/2 birthday of Arthur Lyman 1932
2/7 National Pisco Sour Day
2/11 birthday of Tina Louise, “Ginger” on Gilligan’s Island 1934
2/14 Death of Captain James Cook 1779 Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii
2/20 Kahiki opened 1961
2/22 Birthday of Donn Beach 1907
2/24 death of Arthur Lyman 2002
3/2 death of Martin Denny 2005
3/5 National Absinthe Day
4/2 last episode of Hawaiian Eye airs 1963
4/5 Last episode of Hawaii Five-O airs 1980
& Easter Island encountered by Jacob Roggeveen 1722
4/10 birthday of Martin Denny 1911
4/14 death of Don Ho 2007
4/17 last episode of Gilligan’s Island airs 1967
4/18 Thor Heyerdahl died 2002
4/28 Kon Tiki expedition leaves Peru 1947
5/1 May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii
5/13 World Cocktail Day
6/7 death of Donn Beach 1989
6/11 Kamehameha Day in Hawaii, United Kingdom of Hawai’i
6/11 Grease 2 with the Rock-a-hula Luau is released 1982
6/23 opening day Enchanted Tiki Room Disneyland 1963
6/27 Pineapple Day
6/30 Mai Tai Day
7/10 National Pina Colada Day
7/11 National Mojito Day
7/19 National Daiquiri Day
7/30 Kon Tiki spots land, Puka-Puka 1947
8/7 Kon Tiki expedition reaches Raroia atoll 1947
8/13 birthday of Don Ho 1930
8/16 National Rum Day
8/21 Hawaiian Statehood 1959
8/24 birthday of Duke Kahanamoku 1890
8/25 Kahiki closes 2000
9/13 Yma Sumac’s birthday 1922
9/20 First episode of Hawaii Five-O airs 1968
& first episode of Hawaii Five-O 2010, National Rum Punch Day
9/22 first Hawaii Brady Bunch episode airs 1972 Hawaii Bound
9/26 First episode of Gilligan’s Island airs 1964
9/29 second Hawaii Brady Bunch episode airs 1972 Pass the Tabu
10/1 opening day Tropical Serenade WDW (Enchanted Tiki Room) & opening day Polynesian Village 1971
10/4 National Vodka Day/National Taco Day
10/6 Thor Heyerdahl birthday 1914 & 3rd Hawaii Brady Bunch episode airs 1972, The Tiki Caves
10/7 First episode of Hawaiian Eye airs 1959
10/11 death of Trader Vic 1984
10/12 Polynesian Cultural Center dedicated 1963
10/18 birthday of Dawn Wells, “Mary Ann” on Gilligan’s Island, 1938
11/2 “The Kon Tiki Expedition” book released Norway 1948
11/7 birthday of Captain James Cook 1728
11/12 National Happy Hour Day
11/17 Hinky Dink’s opens 1934
12/5 21st amendment repeals prohibition 1933
12/7 Pearl Harbor 1941
12/10 birthday of Trader Vic 1902
12/28 opening of Mai Kai Restaurant 1956
