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1. In 1917, the first electric refrigerator was installed in Hawaii at the Moana Hotel in Waikiki.
2. In 1959, Governor William F. Quinn signed a bill making Hawaii the 50th state of the United States.
3. In 1976, the Mauna Loa Observatory recorded the highest ever daily concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, at 330 parts per million.
4. In 1992, the USS Missouri, the battleship on which the Japanese surrendered during World War II, arrived in Pearl Harbor to become a museum ship.
5. In 2006, Hawaii became the first state in the United States to ban the use of handheld electronic devices while driving.
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