Hawaii: Today in History 8/1
8-1-1916 Hawaii National Park forms
On August 1, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the country’s 13th national park into existence. It had taken 10 years, but the perseverance of Thurston and Jaggar paid off.
At first, the park consisted of only the summits of Kilauea and Mauna Loa on Hawaiʻi and Haleakala on Maui. Eventually, Kilauea Caldera was added to the park, followed by the forests of Mauna Loa, the Ka’u Desert (the site of ancient warrior footprints set in ash), the rain forest of Olaʻa, and the Kalapana archaeological area of the Puna/Kaʻū Historic District.
8-1-1964 Traci Phillips, American sprint kayaker (Olympics 1996), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
born August 1 in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the old Kaiser (Hospital), which used to be on Ala Moana Boulevard, facing Ala Moana Bowls, where my mom liked to surf in the Fifties. And I’ve been here pretty much my whole life. We moved away when I was, I believe, two months old, back to where my mom grew up in Northern California, and we lived in Sausalito, where she was a teacher. And we moved back when I was eight.
