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>Didn't the US just annex Hawaii as an official state a few years ago? I suppose if you consider 1898 a few years ago.
by 14u2c 5y ago
>Didn't the US just annex Hawaii as an official state a few years ago?
I suppose if you consider 1898 a few years ago.
- roflulz 5y agoit became a state in 1959 with everything finally crushed out of it - before that it was still a quasi territory with more independence
- 14u2c 5y agoI knew I'd get this. Yes, true, but 1898 was the date of "annexation"[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newlands_Resolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newlands_Resolution