Happy Statehood Day
Find more videos like this on Statehood Hawaii On this date in 1959 President Eisenhower signed into law Proclamation 3309 declaring Hawai’i to be the 50th state of the Union. But are we celebrating loudly with parades and flags? Not hardly. In the June 27, 1959, statehood plebiscite, 94.3 percent of voters favored immediate statehood. …