TODAY IN HISTORY

On April 17, 1961, some 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro.

In 1970, Apollo 13 astronauts James A. Lovell, Fred W. Haise and Jack Swigert splashed down in the Pacific.

In 1993, a jury in Los Angeles convicted two former police officers of violating the civil rights of Rodney King.