Timeline in Hawaiian History...1925 - 1949

1926 – The cornerstone for St. Francis Hospital is laid.
• Bishop Estate announces plans for a $2.5 million Kamehameha Schools campus.
• June 9 – Sanford B. Dole (1844 – 1946), 82, first president of the Republic of Hawai‘i and first governor of the Territory of Hawai‘i, dies.

1927 – The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, built at a cost of $4 million, opens.
• The John Rodgers Airport (now Honolulu International Airport) is dedicated.
• The first successful nonstop air flight from the mainland, Oakland to Hawai‘i is flown.

1928 – First chain grocery store in Hawai‘i, Oakland-based Piggly Wiggly, opens in Honolulu.
• May 1 is designated Lei Day in Hawai‘i.
• Mary Kawena Puku‘i, 33, begins translating Hawaiian writings into English at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. From then on, she works actively at passing on her knowledge, sometimes in collaborations with others (Bishop Museum Archives, 2010).

1931 – Kapi‘olani Boulevard from Ward to Sheridan is opened to traffic.

1932 – Princess Elizabeth Kalaniana'ole (1879 – 1932), 52, dies. Wife of Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana‘ole, she was the former President of the Native Sons and Daughters of Hawai‘i and the Ka‘ahumanu Society, and Regent of Hui Kalama.

1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the first U.S. president to visit Hawai‘i arrives.

1935 – May 1 - Harry A. Wengler, father of Camilla Grace Fusae Kaiu‘hono‘onalani Wengler Vignoe is born in Fredericktown, MO.

1936 – The first traffic light in Honolulu is installed at Nu‘uanu Avenue and Beretania Street.

1937 – August 5 – Charlotte Patrice Kalāmanamana Ukishima Wengler (1937 – 2010), mother of Camilla Grace Fusae Kaiu‘hono‘onalani Wengler Vignoe is born in Honolulu, HI.
• The Kodak Hula Show officially begins.

1938 – 18 U.S. Navy bombers land at Pearl Harbor in the greatest mass flight in aviation history.

1941 – The new naval air station at Kane‘ohe Bay is commissioned.
• December 7 - Japanese planes attack the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The U.S.S. Arizona and other ships are sunk. More than 2,500 lives are lost.
1942 – The government begins issuing gas masks to civilians in Hawai'i.
• A ban on liquor sales that had been in effect since December 7, 1941, is lifted.
• March 4 - A Japanese plane drops 4 bombs on the slopes of Tantalus at about 2:15 a.m.
• Sears, Roebuck & Co. opens its new store on Beretania Street.

1944 – The Democratic National Convention endorses statehood for Hawai‘i.

1945 – Prince David Kawananakoa (1868 – 1908), 40, dies.
• Residents celebrate their first curfew-free evening since December 7, 1941, on July 7.

1948 – President Harry S. Truman endorses statehood for Hawai‘i during his report to Congress.