1961 - about 1500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
1492 - a contract was signed by Christopher Columbus and a representative of Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, giving Columbus a commission to seek a westward ocean passage to Asia.
1790 - American statesman Benjamin Franklin died in Philadelphia at age 84.
1861 - the Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union.
1941 - Yugoslavia surrendered to Germany in World War Two.
1964 - Ford Motor Company unveiled its new "Mustang" model.
1969 - a jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 - Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek was deposed.
1970 - the astronauts of Apollo 13 splashed down safely in the Pacific, four days after a ruptured oxygen tank crippled their spacecraft.
1975 - Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's five-year war.
1998 - photographer Linda McCartney, wife of Paul McCartney, died in Tucson, Arizona, at age 56.
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