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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Today:
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 67. Light south wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Increasing clouds, with a low around 54. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the evening.
Highs are to remain at or below seasonable levels, with a chance of precipitation early in the next week, followed by a sharp climb in highs temperatures.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1791 Birth of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (1857-1861).
1813 Birth of Stephen A. Douglas, American politician.
1856 Free Stater J.N. Mace in Westport, Kansas shoots pro-slavery sheriff Samuel Jones in the back.