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Events on Wednesday 21 April 1847 1
1847Donner Party rescuedSurvivors of the snowbound California emigrant group are brought out of the Sierra NevadaRelief parties reached the Donner Party trapped in the Sierra Nevada since late 1846. Of about 87 members, roughly 48 survived, some by resorting to cannibalism. The episode became among the best-known tragedies of the westward migration.