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** Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
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** A 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo and Laupāhoehoe on the Big Island of Hawaii ; 173 are killed, thousands injured.
** Attack on Pearl Harbor: Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
** A solar Eclipse of record totality occurs, seen first in Hawaii then enters Mexico with the path directly crosses Cabo San Lucas and Mexico City seen by 20 million inhabitants, and finally ends in Colombia in South America.
** People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines goes into exile in Hawaii after 20 years of rule ; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president, first as an interim president.
** Voters in Hawaii approve Amendment 2, giving the Hawaii State Legislature the power to restrict marriage to mixed-sex couples.
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** Written communication ( writing ) – representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols ( known as a writing system ).
** WWI ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies between 5: 12 AM and 5: 20 AM in Marshal Foch ’ s railroad car in Compiègne Forest in France.
** President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which authorizes $ 5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
** General Alexander Löhr, Commander of German Army Group E near Topolšica, Slovenia, signs the capitulation of German occupation troops.
** President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066 allowing the United States military to define areas as exclusionary zones.
** Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air Force.
** Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the second year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the confederate states an official war goal.
** The government of Mozambique signs a truce with leaders of RENAMO, ending the 16-year-old Mozambican Civil War.
** President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Federal Aid Highway Act, creating the Interstate Highway System
** American President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act, which goes into effect the following year.
** U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the United States Department of Transportation.
** WWII: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law, which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11 %.
** The OAS signs a truce with the FLN in Algeria, but a day later announces that it will continue the fight on behalf of French Algerians.
** American President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States with effect from January 1, 1971.
** U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
** U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs an immigration bill which abolishes quotas based on national origin.
** U. S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
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