January 29 is nothing in particular, so let's honor Liliuokalani

I'm just going to crib from da Wiki here:

Liliʻuokalani (Hawaiian pronunciation: [liˌliʔuokəˈlɐni]; Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha; September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917) was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893. The composer of "Aloha ʻOe" and numerous other works, she wrote her autobiography Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen during her imprisonment following the overthrow.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili%CA%BBuokalani]

Though England had recognized Hawaii's sovereignty, that meant nothing to the imported sociopaths like Dole, Thurston and Jones who forced King Kalakaua to sign an illegitimate constitution essentially at gunpoint. This Bayonet Constitution transferred power from the monarchy to a sleazy collection of Americans, Europeans, and selected Hawaiians. When she became queen Liliuokalani abrogated that constitution and began drafting a new one which would restore power to the monarchy and restore the voting rights of the economically disenfranchised. This resulted in a coup d'etat of pro-US interests supported by a detachment of US Marines who were allegedly "supporting US interests". As always and forever, US Interests were not the interests of any normal US people, but of banksters, corporations and corporatists, the very wealthy and the powerful. The queen was placed under house arrest and held in that condition for slightly over 2 years whereupon she was forced to abdicate. She continued to try to work for the good of Hawaii and its people, but it was far too late in the day. The US transition from Manifest Destiny to global Total Spectrum Dominance was well underway and there was no way that a small island nation could remain free and self governing when it was just there for the taking.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal used horribly false and fraudulent advertising to con people into horribly dangerous low-paying work. When the workers began to organize US President Andy Jackson sent in federal troops to suppress the organizing efforts on January 29, 1834. This set a horrible precedent with respect to federal, state and local interactions with labor, labor organizers and organized labor as well as a precedent as to fraud and false advertising so long as the victims were mere hoi polloi and not banksters, brokers, corporations and the like.

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On this day in history:

1258 -- Dai Viet defeated the Mongols and drove them out of the country 1819 – Stamford Raffles landed on the island of Singapore 1834 -- Andy Jackson ordered federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute 1845 – "The Raven" was published in The Evening Mirror in New York 1863 -- The Bear River Massacre 1886 -- Karl Benz patented the first successful gasoline-driven automobile 1891 -- Liliuokalani became queen of Hawaii 1907 -- Charles Curtis becames the first Native American U.S. Senator. 2002 -- GW Bush berated the "Axis of evil" in his State of the Union. ***

*** This marked the start of an enormous, outrageous and sustained campaign of lies, deceit, misrepresentation, and propaganda dedicated to justifying a war of aggression against Iraq. It was generally supported, aided and abetted by the press, the pundits and talking heads, and the majority of both political parties' members of the House and Senate.

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Some people who were born on this day:

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

~~ Edward Abbey

1860 -- Anton Chekhov, playwright and author 1881 -- Alice Catherine Evans, microbiologist 1920 – Paul Gayten, R&B pianist, songwriter, producer, and record company executive 1923 -- Paddy Chayefsky, author and screenwriter 1923 – Eddie Taylor, electric blues guitarist and singer 1927 -- Edward Abbey, environmentalist and author 1933 -- Sacha Distel, singer and guitarist 1936 – James Jamerson, bass player 1937 – Jeff Clyne, British musician 1937 -- Bobby Scott, singer, songwriter and musician 1939 -- Germaine Greer, author, journalist and feminist. 1939 – Jeanne Lee, jazz singer, poet and composer 1941 -- Robin Morgan, journalist, poet, activist, political theorist and author. 1946 – Geater Davis, singer and songwriter 1946 -- Bettye LaVette, singer and songwriter 1947 -- Linda B. Buck, biologist 1947 -- David Byron, singer and songwriter 1953 – Teresa Teng, singer 1953 -- Peter Baumann, keyboardist and songwriter. 1953 -- Charlie Wilson, singer and songwriter 1956 – Amii Stewart, singer and dancer 1981 – Jonny Lang, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1982 – Adam Lambert, singer, songwriter and actor 1993 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, singer[

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Some people who died on this day:

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

~~ H. L. Menkin

0661 -- Ali, cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, principal source of Sunni v Shia conflict 1763 -- Louis Racine, poet 1888 -- Edward Lear, "poet" 1933 -- Sara Teasdale, poet 1934 -- Fritz Haber, chemist 1956 -- H. L. Mencken, journalist 1963 -- Robert Frost, poet 1964 – Vera Hall, folk singer 1965 – Jack Hylton, pianist, composer, band leader and impresario 1969 -- Allen Welsh Dulles, criminal, bankster, first CIA head 1970 -- B. H. Liddell Hart, military historian 1976 – Jesse Fuller, one-man band musician, songwriter 1977 – Johnny Franz, record producer and pianist 1979 – Sonny Payne, jazz drummer 1992 -- Willie Dixon, bassist, singer, and songwriter 2008 -- Margaret Truman, author and singer 2015 -- Rod McKuen, singer, songwriter, and poet 2019 – James Ingram, singer, songwriter and record producer

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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Curmudgeons Day Freethinkers Day Gnocchi Day (Argentina)National Corn Chip Day (USA) Seeing Eye Dog Day

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Queen Liliuokalani, a hero who was deposed and imprisoned because she tried to abrogate the illegal Bayonet Constitution and give the poor rights, wrote:

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