| Reminder from: | georgiaconstitution Yahoo! Group | |
| Title: | Hawai'i's Independence Day | |
| Date: | Monday November 28, 2011 | |
| Time: | All Day | |
| Repeats: | This event repeats every year. | |
| Notes: | La Ku'oko'a--Hawai'i's Independence Day--was officially celebrated around the same time as Thanksgiving from about 1844 until 1895, and for some years afterwards unofficially. La Ku'oko'a is the 28th of November. It marks the day, November 28, 1843, that the Ali'i Timoteo Ha'alilio succeeded in obtaining the signatures of the authorities of Great Britain and France on a treaty recognizing Hawai'i as a sovereign nation. Ha'alilio, with the missionary William Richards along as his secretary, traveled through Mexico on foot and donkey to Washington D.C., where they met President John Tyl | |
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