Bay of Pigs Invasion: CIA-Backed Cuban Exiles Land in Cuba, April 17, 1961
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
Date: April 17, 1961
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