Hawaii: Today in History 10/01
10-01-1851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued 
The Hawaiian Missionaries are the first postage stamps of the Kingdom of Hawaii, issued in 1851. They came to be known as the “Missionaries” because they were primarily found on the correspondence of missionariesworking in the Hawaiian Islands. Only a handful of these stamps have survived to the present day, and so they are amongst the great rarities of philately.
10-01-1976 Kona Cormack, playmate (Feb, 1996), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
