1901 - Philippine President on-the-guerrilla-run Emilio Aguinaldo issues a manifesto condemning the atrocities of imperialist Americans during the Philippine-American War.
1893 - Hawaii Kingdom's last monarch, Queen Liliuokalani, is deposed by a group of American and European businessmen scheming for United States' annexation of the islands.
1942 - Afrikaners in South Africa's Parliament unsuccessfully push for a motion turning the country into a neutral republic not associated with Britain
1995 - A massive earthquake devastates the Japanese industrial city of Kobe; the calamity will leave at least 200 dead and 13,000 people injured as entire buildings, blocks of apartment and even an elevated highway crumble to the ground.
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