
Main crater floor and Halema`uma`u fire pit of Kilauea erupt.
Polio declared an epidemic on Lana`i, Maui and O`ahu.
Kamehameha Surgical Wing built at Queen's Hospital; isotope and research labs established.
Waves estimated at 25 feet pour onto Waikiki Beach. At Waianae, high seas overflow Farrington Highway.
Fifty-eight earthquakes shake Hawai`i Island during July.
Honolulu's first "Art Mart," exhibiting work of island art along the Honolulu Zoo fence on Monsarrat Avenue, takes place on
Lei Day.
Actor John Wayne and Pilar Palette marry in Kona.
Native Hawaiian artist Maui Loa born at Queen's Hospital.
Very Rev. Richard M. Release, Jr. resigns as dean of St. Andrews Cathedral to become rector of historic St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Wilmington, Delaware.
New $75,000 chapel completed for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Kailua, O`ahu.
Filmed in Hawai`i,
The Caine Mutiny stars Humphrey Bogart.
Martin Denny plays his first six-week solo gig at Don the Beachcomber's restaurant in Wakiki.