Saturday, April 17, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

APRIL 17
1953:The New York YankeesMickey 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.
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