The events happened on 17th January are :



1893 : Hawaiian monarchy overthrown : Acting for Hawaiian sugar interests and their American allies, a committee led by Sanford Ballard Dole deposed Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani this day in 1893 and installed a provisional government with Dole as president.



1943 : British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met at Casablanca, Morocco.



1942 : American professional boxer Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky.



1917 : The United States purchased three of the Virgin Islands—St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix—from Denmark for $25 million.



1899 : American gangster Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York.



1820 : English poet and novelist Anne Brontë, sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë, was born.



1734 : Augustus III was crowned king of Poland.


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