Paracultural Calendar for April 17

[Mark Thibodeau]

On this day in *1961*, in a massive covert operation that remains, at best,
poorly understood, one thousand four hundred CIA-trained Cuban exiles land
in the *Bay of Pigs*, ostensibly in an abortive attempt to overthrow Cuban
dictator *Fidel Castro*. Depending on which version of reality you believe
- the officially approved version or one of the myriad competing
alternative versions - this failed coup either led directly to *JFK*'s
assassination by Castro supporter *Lee Harvey Oswald*, or it led indirectly
to his assassination by the *CIA* as revenge for JFK's refusal to be forced
into providing air support for a military action the Executive branch had
no part in planning.

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On this day in *1969*, Palestinian immigrant *Sirhan Sirhan* is found
guilty of assassinating presidential candidate Robert Francis Kennedy. Just
as in the assassination of his brother, *John Fitzgerald Kennedy*, serious
*doubts* <http://www.jfklancer.com/hunt/rfk_pt1.htm> and troubling
*questions*
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/robert-kennedys-killer-sirhan-sirhan-brainwashed/story?id=13029050>
 remain.

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On this day in *1986*, *IBM* announces it will commence the manufacture of
the first ever computers using the megabit memory chip, which is capable of
storing more than one million bits of electronic data, thereby bringing us
out of the age of *ascii nudes* <http://www.dl.nu/nudes.ascii>, which led
directly to the era of masturbation-worthy computer porn.
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