On this day in 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion took place when a force of 1400 Cuban exiles, funded and led by the U.S., landed on the southwest coast of Cuba in a failed attempt at overthrowing the revolutionary Cuban government.
Covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government, the operation took place at the height of the Cold War and its failure led to major shifts in international relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
The coup attempt came after the Cuban government expropriated property from American capitalists. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower allocated $13.1 million to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in March 1960 for use against Castro's government. With the aid of Cuban counter-revolutionaries, the CIA proceeded to organize an invasion.
On April 14th, 1961, a squadron of U.S. B-26 bombers camouflaged with Cuban insignias begin a two-day bombing campaign of Cuban airports, destroying a large portion of the Cuban air force.
On the night of April 17th, an invasion force of approximately 1400 Cuban exiles and CIA officers landed on the beach at Playa Girón in the Bay of Pigs. After a few days, the insurgents became overwhelmed by the Cuban army. President Kennedy refused to provide air support for the operation.
The invasion's defeat solidified Castro's role as a national hero and strengthened Cuba-Soviet relations. Several Cuban exiles and two Americans were executed upon capture. Over 1,000 prisoners were exchanged for humanitarian aid from the U.S. government.
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Had this incredibly strong urge to replay Morrowind again, and specifically to try out Tamriel Rebuilt and the other Project Tamriel mods, but I currently don't have access to my computer so there was sadly no way to quench my thirst for that good good Morrowind. Or was there?
I present to you: Morrowind if for some reason you wanted to play it on a phone.
idk how people do this
There's an open source re-implementation of Morrowind called Open me, that basically redoes everything the games assets need to function, with the explicit goal of making the game run better, add more functionality and allow people to create their own games like Morrowind (there is at least one total conversion out there that turns the game into a Star wars RPG). The main Open me project only runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, but some other people them ported it to Android. You can even use mods and everything, although it doesn't really run that great and it's pretty fiddly.
No i mean how people tolerate a game with the phone hud and touch screen controls, idk, I'd rather not even play at that point
Not everyone has that choice. I'm sure there's at least one person out there who has played through Morrowind this way. And if you attach a mouse and keyboard to your phone and your phone supports HDMI out you wouldn't even be able to tell that it's running on a phone, you can install any mod on it that you could install on OpenMW on a PC, even script mods. I just think it's neat, kinda only installed it to see if I could though admittedly
No i mean my dislike for the phone controls is so great i just wouldn't play games if it were my only option. Idk how people do it and have fun. I know how people literally physically do it and what would motivate them to try. I just do not relate to enjoying it enough to do it more, it's too awkward