This Day in History

April 17

1946  
Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation.
1961  
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1969  
Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1969  
Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubèek is deposed.
1971  
The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.