Events in History for Sunday April 17th 2016

  • 1397 Geoffrey Chaucer tells the “Canterbury Tales” for the first time at the court of English King Richard II
  • 1492 Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find Indies
  • 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed ending the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
  • 1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro
  • 1982 Canada adopts its constitution

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