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This Week in History: April 17-23, 2017
for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”
Machiavelli
April 17
1704 – John Campbell publishes in Boston the first successful U.S. newspaper.
1865 – Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in President Lincoln’s assassination. She owns the boarding house where her son John Surratt, along with John Wilkes Booth and others, conspire to kill the president. She is hanged on July 7th with three others convicted of the conspiracy. Mary, aged 42, is the first woman executed by order of the U.S. government.
1924 – Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Company merge to form MGM.
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On Easter Sunday 1987, the last known wild California condor was captured 40 miles southwest of Bakersfield He was taken to what is now called the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, to be put in a captive-breeding program.
The giant male known as AC-9 (Adult Condor 9) fathered 9 chicks before he was moved to the Los Angeles Zoo. After fifteen years in the captive breeding program he was released back into the wild May 1, 2002.
From a population of 27 birds in captivity in 1987, the population of California condors has grown to more than 500 birds.
From The San Diego Union, Monday, April 20, 1987:
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Rare bird taken to Wild Animal Park to be put in captive-breeding program
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people, and hence, every day has been a significant one in the foibles of History. Let’s take a tour of “This Day in History – 19th of April”.
1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne
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Alam Shah was the fourth and last ruler of the Sayyid dynasty which ruled the Delhi Sultanate. Born Ala-ud-Din, he succeeded his father, Muhammad Shah to the throne and took on the regnal name of Alam Shah (“world king”).