· Oahu, Hawaii

1895 Wilcox Rebellion (Counter-Revolution)

resistance

Royalists led by Robert Wilcox mounted an armed attempt to restore Queen Liliʻuokalani and the Hawaiian Kingdom; the Republic crushed it in three days, then arrested the Queen on Jan 16 and forced her abdication on Jan 24.

Communities
  • Native Hawaiian
Topics
  • sovereignty

Sources

Also on January 6

achievement

March Fong Eu Sworn In as California Secretary of State

On January 6, 1975, March Fong Eu was sworn in as California Secretary of State — the first Asian American elected to statewide constitutional office in the United States, and earlier the first Asian American woman elected to the California legislature.