The Bay of Pigs Invasion took place on April 17, 1961. During this invasion, a CIA-sponsored rebel group tried to invade the island of Cuba. The invasion was intended to overthrow the government of President Fidel Castro. However, the CIA-sponsored counter-revolutionaries were defeated within three days.
<em>Domestic event:</em>
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. This occurred as he was riding in a presidential motorcade with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, Governor John Connally and Connally's wife. The person responsible for the attack was former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald.
July 4: The Philippines gains independence from the United States, and begins fighting communist Huk rebels (Hukbalahap Rebellion). I hope I could help! :)
An aristocracy. <span>John Adams felt that power needed to be shared to prevent another aristocracy—that is, when the wealthiest people hold all the power.</span>
The Twenty-third Amendment (Amendment XXIII) to the United States Constitution extends the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state.
