April 17. On this date in 2000, the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the UK announced "the theft of the eagle from the top of the monument to Shoghi Effendi in the New Southgate Cemetery ... noting "It is clear that this was not an act of vandalism or of religious desecration, since no other damage was caused and the eagle has been removed altogether from the cemetery."

April 17. On this date in 2000, the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the UK announced "the theft of the eagle from the top of the monument to Shoghi Effendi in the New Southgate Cemetery ... noting "It is clear that this was not an act of vandalism or of religious desecration, since no other damage was caused and the eagle has been removed altogether from the cemetery."