17 April 2014
History for the day
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On 17 April 1961, about fifteen hundred CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs (aptly-named, though it's properly Bahia de Cochinos) invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
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