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    • Today in History: April 17, Bay of Pigs invasion launched

      Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year ago

      On April 17, 1961, some 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion by the third ...

    • Today in History: June 18, first U.S. woman in space

      Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year ago

      This is Father's Day. On June 18, 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day ...