This Day in History
1893: Hawaiian monarchy overthrown
Acting for Hawaiian sugar interests and their American allies, a committee led by Sanford Ballard Dole deposed Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani this day in 1893 and installed a provisional government with Dole as president.
More events on this day
1943: Allied leaders (from left) French General Henri Giraud, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, …British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met at Casablanca, Morocco.
1942: Muhammad Ali (right) fighting Ernie Terrell, 1967.American professional boxer Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
1917: The United States purchased three of the Virgin Islands—St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix—from Denmark for $25 million.
1899: American gangster Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1820: Anne Brontë.English poet and novelist Anne Brontë, sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë, was born.
1734: Augustus III, detail of an oil painting by Louis de Silvestre; in the State Collections of Art in …Augustus III was crowned king of Poland. |
