APRIL 17
1865:Boardinghouse owner Mary Surratt is arrested in connection with the April 14 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. She is convicted of treason, conspiracy and plotting Lincoln’s murder and is sentenced to death. Her death on July 7, 1865, will be the U.S. government’s first execution of a woman.
1961: Nearly 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles land in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs, beginning Operation Zapata, an attempted coup to oust communist leader Fidel Castro. Most of the attacking exiles are quickly captured by Castro’s military in a foreign policy disaster for the Kennedy administration.
1964: Henry Ford II unveils the Ford Mustang, America’s first “pony car,” at the New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows. Since then, more than 9 million Mustangs have been sold.
1961: Nearly 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles land in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs, beginning Operation Zapata, an attempted coup to oust communist leader Fidel Castro. Most of the attacking exiles are quickly captured by Castro’s military in a foreign policy disaster for the Kennedy administration.
1964: Henry Ford II unveils the Ford Mustang, America’s first “pony car,” at the New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows. Since then, more than 9 million Mustangs have been sold.
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