1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
1942 12 Lancasters bomb MAN factory in Augsburg.
1942 Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp.
1943 Marshal Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul.
1961 Jimmy Stewart accepts an honorary Oscar on behalf of his friend Gary Cooper, who is too ill to attend.
1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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