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The first mishap occurred on April 15, 1961, when eight bombers left Nicaragua to bomb Cuban airfields.
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On April 17, 1961, 1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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On December 23, 1962, just two months after the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a plane containing the first group of freed prisoners landed in the United States.