Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 17
On April 17:
- 1937 - Daffy Duck made his debut in a Warner Bros. short cartoon.
- 1942 - Captured French General Henri Giraud escaped from his castle prison.
- 1961 - The CIA-backed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba began.
- 1970 - The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returned with all crew aboard and alive.
- 1975 - The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, ending the Cambodian Civil War.