JANUARY 17
1893:Queen Lili’uokalani, the last monarch of Hawaii, is forced to abdicate by a group composed mainly of powerful Americans and Europeans opposed to the queen’s attempts to strengthen the Hawaiian monarchy. Hawaii will become a republic under President Sanford B. Dole, an official U.S. territory in 1900, and the 50th state in 1959.
1806: Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph, daughter of President Thomas Jefferson, gives birth to her eighth child, a son named James Madison Randolph. He is the first child born in the White House.
1961: In his farewell speech to the nation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower cautions the American people about the dangerous potential for the United States to develop an overly powerful “military-industrial complex.”
1806: Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph, daughter of President Thomas Jefferson, gives birth to her eighth child, a son named James Madison Randolph. He is the first child born in the White House.
1961: In his farewell speech to the nation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower cautions the American people about the dangerous potential for the United States to develop an overly powerful “military-industrial complex.”
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