"Aue, he kanaka au, eia i loko o ke kukonukonu o ka maʻi!"
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January 1, 1970

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Who: Kalākaua, last King and second-to-last monarch of Hawaii — Note: "Tell my people I tried," which was more popularly mistaken as his last words, was actually a quote invented by Eugene Burns in his biography of Kalākaua, The Last King of Paradise, published in 1952.