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

      Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines 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, FEB 23, siege of the Alamo begins

      Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year ago

      On Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of schoolchildren against polio using the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh as some 5,000 students were vaccinated. In 1685, composer George Frideric ...