On this day, April 19, in 1961
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The Bay of Pigs invasion came to a humiliating end for the American government. The invasion was planned and financed by the US under President Kennedy, with the ultimate goal of overthrowing Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolutionary regime. The CIA trained anti-Castro Cuban exiles for the attack and attempted to make it appear as an internal Cuban conflict, but the web of lies created by the US to mask their involvement quickly unraveled. The Bay of Pigs invasion failed miserably, with US losses including the capture of the Cuban exiles and the death of four American pilots.
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