On this day
Congress established the Territory of Hawaii and its government, conferring US citizenship on those who had been citizens of the Republic of Hawaii-part of the colonial framework imposed after the Kingdom's 1893 overthrow and 1898 annexation. (Shares Apr 30 with the 1975 Fall of Saigon.)
The end of the Vietnam War triggered the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and later Hmong, Cambodian, and Lao, refugees in the US. (Shares Apr 30 with the 1900 Hawaiian Organic Act.)
The Japanese American National Museum opened to the public in a former Buddhist temple in LA's Little Tokyo-the first US museum dedicated to the Japanese American experience. (Shares Apr 30 with the Hawaiian Organic Act and the Fall of Saigon.)