TODAY IN HISTORY

APRIL 17

1953:The New York Yankees’ Mickey Mantle hits the longest home run ever recorded when he slugs a ball 565 feet, two years to the day after his major league debut.

1961: More than 1,000 Cuban exiles invade the Bay of Pigs in Cuba as part of a failed, CIA-led revolution against Fidel Castro.

1969: Sirhan Sirhan is found guilty of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.