Welcome Hawaii into the United States!

They became the 50th state in 1959 on this day!

There are several ways to get information on this great state. You could go to a paper encyclopedia, the "H" volume. On the internet, you could Google Hawaii. The 996's would be the nonfiction dewey decimal number for a book. For a presentation of the main ideas, looking in the index of the current almanac would give some brief facts of the Hawaiian Islands.