Daily Update: Wednesday, April 17th, 2024

With no Saints today, we can recall the events of this day in 1961, when United States military naval transports under the command of the CIA landed thirteen hundred Cuban exile ground troops at Playa Girón in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the southern coast of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro.

The Cat Who Robbed a Bank by Lilian Jackson Braun (Ebook)

In this twenty-second book of the series about Jim Qwilleran, former crime reporter and current column writer for the local paper (and inheritor of a vast fortune), he and the cats (Koko and Yum Yum, both Siamese) are living in Pickax City in September, which is late in the fall four hundred miles north of anywhere. This was a good addition to the series.