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April 25, 1961: Launch of Mercury 3. The uncrewed Mercury 3 (MA-3) was launched from Cape Canaveral in an attempt to orbit the spacecraft with a "mechanical astronaut" aboard. After lift-off, the launch vehicle failed to roll to a 70-degree heading and to pitch over into the proper trajectory.
4 Holidays and observances. 5 References. ... April 17 is the 107th day of the year ... 1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: ...
April 17: April 24 2023 April 6 April 9: April 16 ... April 2 9: 1961: 2051 12* 5: 1972: 2056 093 13 April 3 8: ... ANZAC Day is a public holiday on 25 April.
1961 was a common year ... December 23 – Luxembourg's national holiday, ... April 17. Boomer Esiason, American football player and color commentator;
April 17 The Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba begins; it fails by April 19. The 33rd Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Bob Hope, is held at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Billy Wilder's The Apartment wins and receives the most respective awards and nominations with five and ten, winning Best Motion Picture and Best Director for Wilder. It is the ...
At midnight on 17 April 1961, the two LCIs Blagar and Barbara J, each with a CIA 'operations officer' and an Underwater Demolition Team of five frogmen, entered the Bay of Pigs. They headed a force of four transport ships ( Houston , Río Escondido , Caribe and Atlántico ) carrying about 1,400 Cuban exile ground troops of Brigade 2506, plus ...
Patriots' Grave in the Old Burying Ground cemetery, Arlington, Massachusetts Patriots' Day (Patriot's Day in Maine) [1] is an annual event, formalized as a legal holiday or a special observance day in six U.S. states, commemorating the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy, the inaugural battles of the American Revolutionary War.
Rigoberto Alpizar (April 17, 1961 – December 7, 2005) was a Costa Rican-born United States citizen who was fatally shot at Miami International Airport by two United States Federal Air Marshals. Alpizar lived in the central Florida town of Maitland and worked in the Paint Department of a Home Depot .