AANHPI History Calendar

· Honolulu, Hawaii

Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom

injustice

American businessmen and sugar planters, backed by US Marines, deposed Queen Liliuokalani and overthrew the sovereign Hawaiian Kingdom.

Communities
  • Native Hawaiian
Topics
  • sovereignty
  • law

Sources

  • nps.gov nps.gov/articles/000/queen-lili-uokalani.htm
  • govinfo.gov govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-107/pdf/STATUTE-107-Pg1510.pdf

Also on January 17

injustice

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