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NOVEMBER 30 ' 1863: Kamehameha IV, king of Hawaii †Cause of Death: Broken Heart Wracked with guilt over the death of his son Albert (see August 27), weighed down by affairs of state and debilitated by chronic asthma, the previously hale and hearty monarch plunged into a vortex of glum, alcoholic depression ‌ and there was nothing anybody could do about it. Certainly there was nothing his wife, Queen Emma, could do to save him when his already shallow breathing stopped for good. Her attempt at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was a heroic but ultimately futile act.
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