On this date in HISTORY
April 17, 1961
1,400 trained CIA operatives
were transported to the Cuba
docking port "Bay of Pigs"
in a ill-conceived plot to
overthrow Fidel Castro, communist
insurgent leader of the island-nation.
AP News dot-com/ Today in History
Within three days,
authorities in the Communist
govt. had arrested all who had landed
and imprisoned them.
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