Events
In 1997, a three-game regular season series between Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals and San Diego Padres was held at the stadium. The series was played in with a doubleheader on April 19 and a nationally broadcast (ESPN) game on April 20. In 1975, the Padres had played an exhibition series against the Seibu Lions of Japan's Pacific League.
- The Police in their final US concert on their Synchronicity Tour on February 25, 1984.
- Michael Jackson's HIStory World Tour on January 3–4, 1997 - his only US shows that decade. He was the first person to sell out Aloha Stadium.
- Whitney Houston ended her Pacific Rim Tour with a sold-out concert on May 28, 1997.
- The Rolling Stones during their Bridges To Babylon Tour on January 23–24, 1998.
- Mariah Carey ended her Butterfly World Tour with a sold-out concert on February 21, 1998.
- Celine Dion on her Let's Talk About Love Tour on February 12, 1999.
- Janet Jackson's All for You Tour in 2002, which was broadcast on HBO as well as her 1999 Velvet Rope World Tour which broke stadium attendance records. The capacity for her 1999 show was expanded from the original capacity of 35,000 to 38,000 to meet the high ticket demand.
- U2's final stop on their Vertigo Tour on December 9, 2006.
Aloha Stadium hosted the inaugural Pan-Pacific Championship (February 20–23, 2008), a knockout soccer tournament, involving four teams from Japan's J-League, North America's Major League Soccer (MLS) and Australia/New Zealand's A-League.
Aloha Stadium is also the venue for five public high school graduation ceremonies. Radford High School, Mililani High School, Aiea High School, James Campbell High School, and Pearl City High School hold their graduation ceremony at the stadium in early June.
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