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This Day In HistoryJanuary 17

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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.


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1734:Augustus III was crowned king of Poland.