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January 17, 2017
January 17 is IndyCar champion A.J. Foyt’s birthday.
On this date in 1893, Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.
On this date in 1961, in his final televised addressed to the nation, U.S President Eisenhower warned Americans to beware the booming “military-industrial complex” that had developed. Participation in World War Two, the Korean War, and the Cold War had resulted in the development of a large and powerful defense establishment. He was concerned about “the acquisition of unwarranted influence…by the military-industrial complex.” He asked the American people to guard against the “danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
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