The Battle of Java Sea

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The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba to squash Fidel Castro’s increasingly communistic-backed regime. JFK failed to approve air and naval support which doomed the invasion.

Kamikaze pilots of World War Two, who intentionally crashed their explosive-laden fighter planes into Allied naval warships.

The sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 when a Germany U-boat torpedoed the passenger liner off the coast of Ireland, taking the lives of 1,200 innocent passengers.

The death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, or FDR, occurred on April 12th, 1945. The only four-term president in American history.

The U2 spy plane incident of 1960 when Soviet missiles shot down an American spy plane as it made a high-altitude spy flight over Russian soil.

NASA’s space shuttle program flew 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, costing the lives of fourteen astronauts in two devastating accidents.

The sinking of the Titanic occurred on April 15th, 1912, despite being touted as the first unsinkable passenger ship to ever set sail.