Today's Highlight in History:
On January 17th, 1893, Hawaii's monarchy¹君主政体 was overthrown²打倒，推翻 as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate退位，放弃.

On this date:
In 1706, Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston.

In 1893, the 19th president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, died in Fremont, Ohio, at age 70.

In 1899, notorious声名狼藉的 gangster³歹徒，流氓 Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1945, Soviet⁴ and Polish forces liberated⁵ Warsaw during World War Two.

In 1945, Swedish diplomat⁶ Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews, disappeared in Hungary while in Soviet custody⁷拘留.

In 1946, the United Nations Security Council held its first meeting.

In 1961, in his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex工业联合企业."

In 1977, convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, 36, was shot by a firing squad行刑队 at Utah State Prison in the first US execution in a decade.

In 1989, five children were shot to death at the Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California, by a drifter漂流物，流浪汉 who then killed himself.

In 1994, a six-point-seven magnitude震级，量度 earthquake struck Southern California, killing⁹ at least 61 people and causing $20 billion worth of damage.

Ten years ago: A federal judge in Miami set a March 1990 date for ex-Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega's drug trafficking毒品走私，贩毒 trial to begin. (After initial delays, Noriega was tried and convicted of racketeering敲诈勒索，诈骗 and conspiracy¹⁰ to distribute cocaine¹¹, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison, later cut to 30 years.)

Five years ago: More than six-thousand people were killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of seven-point-two devastated¹² the city of Kobe, Japan.

One year ago: As White House lawyers met to work on President Clinton's defense¹³, their client spent the day preparing for his State of the Union address. The defending Super Bowl美国橄榄球超级杯大赛 champion Denver Broncos defeated the New York Jets, 23-to-10, to win the American Football Conference title; the Atlanta Falcons¹⁴ upset颠覆，扰乱 the Minnesota Vikings, 30-to-27, to win the National Football Conference championship.