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.
| 1943: | | | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met at Casablanca, Morocco. |
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| 1942: | | | American professional boxer Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky. |
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| 1917: | | The United States purchased three of the Virgin Islands—St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix—from Denmark for $25 million. |
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| 1899: | | American gangster Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York. |
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| 1820: | | English poet and novelist Anne Brontë, sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë, was born. |
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| 1734: | | | Augustus III was crowned king of Poland. |
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