The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day. Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor, served as the primary…
Tag: 17 April
17 April 1961
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the…
17 April 1961
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the…
17 April 1349
The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan II.
17 April 1978
Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d’état in Afghanistan.
17 April 2006
A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Tel_Aviv_shawarma_restaurant_bombing’]
17 April 1946
The last French troops are withdrawn from occupied Syria. Crisis Phase July 2, 1919-July 17, 1925:Syrian nationalists, meeting in Damascus on July 2, 1919, called…
17 April 1961
A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel…
17 April 1946
Syria gets its independence from the French occupation. In June 1940, after the Franco-German armistice, the French in Syria announced that they would cease hostilities…