Portal:Hawaii/Selected anniversaries/December

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Click on a red link below to add an anniversary. When creating a new page, it is best practice to use the existing formatting template to ensure uniformity. The syntax is as follows:

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 |year=year of event
 |description=description of event with links
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Subsequent events that took place on the same day should be added by editing the resulting page directly.

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December 7

• 1941 - The Empire of Japan launches an aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, killing over 2,300 personnel. The event marked the start of the United States' involvement in World War II and prompted U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to call December 7 "a date which will live in infamy".

December 11

• 1830 - Kamehameha V, King of Hawaiʻi and the last of the Kamehameha monarchs, is born. He died on his birthday in 1872 without naming a successor to the throne.

December 14

• 1902 - The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.

December 15

• 1854 - Kamehameha III, third king of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, dies at the age of 41.

December 19

• 1931 - Bernice Pauahi Bishop, philanthropist and great-granddaughter of King Kamehameha I, is born in Honolulu.