April 17th in History

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April 17th in History

1524: Giovanni Verrazano discovers New York Harbor. Real estate prices immediately increase.
1961: Bay of Pig invasion The US try to start a people's revolution to overthrow Fidel Castro. They fail
1970: The Apollo XIII mission makes it back to earth It was the mission which popularized the phrase "Houston, we have a problem" as an on-board explosion threatened to kill the spacemen... "Houston, we HAD a problem"
1975: The government of Cambodia surrends to the Khmer Rouge
1983: India launched its first satellite

April 17th birthdays

1837: John Pierpont Morgan, American industrialist
1894: Nikita S Khrushchev, Russian leader
1918: William Holden, American actor