Bay of Pigs invasion
1961 · Event
CIA-backed Cuban exile force is routed at the Bay of Pigs; embarrassment for Kennedy.
On these timelines: Cold War, Latin America, Master, USA
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- Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
- Hungarian Revolution (1956)
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989)
- Henry Kissinger (1923)
- Helsinki Accords (1975)
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Long Telegram (1946)
Around 1961
- The Beatles (1960)
- Events of 1968 (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Hey Jude (The Beatles) (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- She Loves You (The Beatles) (1963)
- Watson and Crick discover DNA structure (1953)