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This Day in History— April 17
Victoria Beckham celebrates her 45th birthday today.
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April 17, 2019

This Day in History— April 17

Today is the 107th day of 2019. There are 258 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1961: Cuba is invaded at “Bay of Pigs” by a US-supported invasion force of 1,500 Cuban exiles, who are defeated by Fidel Castro’s forces.

OTHER EVENTS

1194: Richard the Lionhearted returns to England, ending an epic journey which began with his victory over Muslim leader Saladin during the Third Crusade.

1492: Spain agrees to finance Christopher Columbus’s voyage of discovery; Columbus signs a contract with a representative of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, giving him a commission to seek a westward ocean passage to Asia.

1521: Martin Luther appears before the Holy Roman Emperor at Worms, Germany, and is cross-examined about his thoughts on religious reform. Luther goes into hiding soon after.

1524: Giovanni da Verrazano discovers New York harbour.

1824: Russia and the United States define respective rights in the Pacific Ocean and on north-west coast of America.

1943: US bombers attack Palermo, Sicily, in World War II.

1946: Last French troops leave Syria, which becomes independent.

1964: The Ford Motor Co unveils its new Mustang model; Jerrie Mock of Columbus, Ohio, becomes the first woman to complete a solo aeroplane flight around the world.

1971: Egypt, Syria and Libya sign agreement to confederate.

1975: Phnom Penh falls to communist insurgents, ending Cambodia’s five-year war.

1989: Afghan government forces dislodge rebels from major land routes.

1992: Russian lawmakers refuse to approve arms control pact, setting up another confrontation with President Boris Yeltsin.

1993: A federal jury in Los Angeles convicts two former police officers of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King; two other officers are acquitted.

1997: The South Korean Supreme Court upholds verdicts sentencing former president Chun Doo Hwan to life in prison and his successor, Roh Tae Woo, to 17 years. They were accused of abuse of power and corruption.

1998: The United Nations withdraws the team investigating mass killings of Rwandan Hutus in Congo, complaining of a “total lack of cooperation” by the Congolese Government.

2000: Paul Kagame is selected president of Rwanda, the nation’s first Tutsi leader since independence in 1962 and a former rebel leader whose forces stopped the 1994 genocide.

2001:Jury selection begins in Brussels in the landmark trial of four Rwandans, including two Roman Catholic nuns, who faced charges of aiding and abetting the murder of Tutsis during the 1994 genocide.

2005: Communist rebels in southern Nepal drag at least 10 people from their homes and gun them down for refusing to take up arms with the guerrilla movement. The guerrillas, who claim to be inspired by Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong, began fighting in 1996 to overthrow Nepal’s monarchy and establish a communist state.

2010: Some 100,000 Poles fill Warsaw’s biggest public square, joining together for a memorial and funeral mass for the 96 people killed in a plane crash in Russia a week earlier.

2011: The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant lays out a blueprint for stopping radiation leaks and stabilising damaged reactors within the next six to nine months as a first step toward allowing some of the tens of thousands of evacuees to return to the area.

2012: In a scene unimaginable in many countries, Norway’s worst mass killer gets the chance to explain his fanatical views to the court and the world, unrepentant and dressed in a business suit. Prosecutors and lawyers for the families of his 77 victims even shake his hand.

2014: Ukraine and Russia agree on tentative steps to halt violence and calm along their shared border after more than a month of Cold War-style posturing triggered by Moscow’s annexation of Crimea.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Henry Vaughan, English poet (1622-1695); Samuel Chase, US jurist/signer of the Declaration of Independence (1741-1811); J Pierpont Morgan, US financier (1837-1913); Isak Dinesen, Danish writer (1885-1962); Thornton Wilder, US novelist/playwright (1897-1975); Liz Phair, US singer (1967- ); Jennifer Garner, US actress (1972- ); Victoria Adams Beckham, British singer (1974- )

— AP

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