Today In History-17th April

TODAY IN HISTORY-APRIL-17th

• 1970 Apollo 13 returns to Earth
• 1864 Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina, begins(Civil War)
• 1961 The Bay of Pigs invasion begins(Cold War)
• 1815 Volcanic eruption kills 80,000(Disaster)
• 1790 Benjamin Franklin dies
• 1941 Yugoslavia surrenders
• 1976 Mike Schmidt hits four consecutive homers
• 1972 First antiwar protest of the year is conducted(Vietnam War)
• 1975 Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge(Vietnam War)
• 1917 Second Battle of Gaza(World War I)
• 1941 The Yugoslav army surrenders(World War II)
• 1945 Americans seize 1,100 tons of uranium(World War II)