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1893 - Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.  Queen Latifah assumed power and reigned over Hawaii until she was removed from power for making that shitty Taxi movie with Jimmy Fallon.

1899 - Al Capone , the American gangster and prohibition era crime leader , was born. Capone enjoyed the finest cigars and had them imported from a special factory in Florida.  The famous gangster also enjoyed bootlegging, running prostitution, tax evasion, organized crime, bribing government officials, murder, and extortion.  But he got me a fiver of Tatuaje Franks once, so he’s a good guy.

1917 - U.S. pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands.

1918 – U.S. attempts to get its money back from Denmark complaining, "Those f**king whore islands weren’t virgins.”

1928 – The first fully automatic photographic film developing machine was patented by George Winston.  The first photograph processed on the machine was a portrait of US President Calvin Coolidge smoking a cigar.  The second photograph processed was a picture Winston took of his own penis.

1959 - Susanna Hoffs, lead singer for The Bangles, is born.  Nothing cigar related about this entry, but damn, what guy didn’t want to nail her after that sexy eyes shift in the “Walk Like An Egyptian” video? That was HAWT!

1998 - President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit when he answered questions from lawyers for Paula Jones, who had accused Clinton of sexual harassment. Clinton vehemently denied ever using a cigar as a sex toy with Paula Jones. In a rare moment of levity during his testimony, Clinton even joked that, “…they don’t make cigars that big, if you know what I mean.”