On this day, 64 years ago, April 16, 1961 (March 2, 1961, the Cuban rebels failed to land at the Bay of Pigs. Cuban rebels stormed the Bay of Pigs beach on the night of April 12, 1961, U.S. B-56 bombers took off from bases in Nicaragua to provide air support for the invasion. Forty-eight hours later, a force of about 1400 people, mostly trained civilians, landed at the Bay of Pigs. They encountered a stronger than expected Cuban defense force, followed by fierce fighting, and no further U.S. military support came. To make matters worse, the expected rebellion in Cuba did not materialize. The invasion was a complete failure and was defeated in 72 hours. The battle left a mess of rubble in the Bay of Pigs. Although the representatives of the United States and the Soviet Union seemed friendly at the Vienna summit in June. Relations between the two countries have become extremely tense due to the Bay of Pigs incident. Castro hurried to meet the major challenge, cigar in hand. In the past few months, unrest has increased among Cuban fugitives, especially those from the All-Central Cuban Revolutionary Council led by Dr. José Miro Cardona. Dr. Miro Kadona issued a call on April 8 for Cubans to take up arms and support the anti-Castro movement he led. "Cubans arm themselves!" He called. "We must win, or we will die in slavery. In response to this call, Castro's troops were ready to fight back against the counter-revolutionary offensive. Representatives of the United States and the Soviet Union seemed friendly at the Vienna summit in June, only three months after the Kennedy administration took office, it fell into crisis amid an attempt to invade the island of Cuba. When Kennedy was elected in November 1960, he discovered that the CIA had been training a small army of Cuban exiles in Guatemala with the aim of invading Cuba and overthrowing Fidel Castro's revolutionary regime. Although Kennedy had doubts about the plan, he allowed it to be implemented, with consequences that constituted one of the greatest humiliations of his presidency. The battle of powerful Cuban defenses left a mess of rubble in the Bay of Pigs