Today in History: April 17, the Bay of Pigs Invasion

The present day is Thursday April the th day of There are days left in the year The present day in history On April specific CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro whose forces crushed the incursion within three days Also on this date In Jerrie Mock completed the first solo around-the-world flight by a woman landing her single-engine Cessna plane in Columbus Ohio after a -day journey Related Articles Massachusetts local police confront continuing Tesla vandalism incidents What happens next after judge warns of achievable contempt prosecution over deportation flights order Massachusetts state pension funds should be safe from sphere volatility managers say Judge escalates deportation fight China-founded e-commerce sites Temu and Shein say they re raising prices due to tariffs In a jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Sen Robert F Kennedy Sirhan s death sentence would be commuted to life in prison with the possibility of parole He remains in prison the present day In Apollo astronauts James A Lovell Fred W Haise and Jack Swigert splashed down safely in the Pacific four days after a ruptured oxygen tank crippled their spacecraft while enroute to the moon In the Boston Marathon allowed women to compete for the first time Nina Kuscsik was the first officially recognized women s champion with a time of In Cambodia s five-year civil war ended as the capital Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge which instituted brutal radical policies that claimed an estimated million lives nearly one in four Cambodians until the regime was overthrown in In the Dow Jones industrial average closed above for the first time ending the day at up In a federal jury in Los Angeles convicted two former police officers of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King Two other officers were acquitted In President Donald Trump via Twitter urged supporters to LIBERATE three states led by Democratic governors apparently encouraging protests against stay-at-home mandates aimed at stopping the coronavirus This day s Birthdays Actor David Bradley is Actor Clarke Peters is Author Nick Hornby is Actor Sean Bean is Rock singer Maynard James Keenan Tool is Actor Lela Rochon is Actor Kimberly Elise is Singer-songwriter Liz Phair is Director-producer Adam McKay is Rapper-actor Redman is Football Hall of Famer Tony Boselli is Actor Jennifer Garner is Singer Victoria Beckham is Actor Rooney Mara is