WHAT HAPPENED ON 17. APRIL
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Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces. (17. April 1945)

Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation. (17. April 1946)

At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland. (17. April 1949)

The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park. (17. April 1951)

Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. (17. April 1961)

Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air. (17. April 1964)

Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market. (17. April 1964)

Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. (17. April 1969)

Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed. (17. April 1969)

Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. (17. April 1970)

The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor. (17. April 1971)

George Lucas begins writing the treatment for The Star Wars. (17. April 1973)

The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender. (17. April 1975)

Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan. (17. April 1978)

Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. (17. April 1982)

Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau (Embassy) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building. (17. April 1984)

The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends. (17. April 1986)

Nezar Hindawi's attempt to detonate a bomb aboard an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv is thwarted. (17. April 1986)

Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70. (17. April 2006)

An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others. (17. April 2013)