Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
American businessmen and sugar planters, backed by US Marines, deposed Queen Liliuokalani and overthrew the sovereign Hawaiian Kingdom.
On this day
January 17
Stockton Schoolyard Shooting
A gunman opened fire on the schoolyard at Cleveland Elementary, killing five Cambodian and Vietnamese refugee children and wounding about 30 others before killing himself; he had voiced resentment of Asian immigrants. (Shares Jan 17 with the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.)
Content note: racial violence.