<span>It was the Bay of Pigs Fiasco. It was an invasion of Cuban exiles whose goal
is to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
It was launched in Guatemala by CIA-trained counter-revolutionary forces
known as Brigade 2506. Though they were
supported by American bombers who bombarded the Cuban airfields and managed to
overwhelm a small militia, they were crushed by a Cuban counter-offensive by
Jose Ramon Fernandez. Later, Castro himself led the attack and the invaders
surrendered and were imprisoned on April 20, 1961.</span>
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham.
Missouri Compromise, measure worked out in 1820 between the North and the South and passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed for admission of Missouri as the 24th state. It marked the beginning of the prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery that led to the American Civil War.
