Today in History 17th April

Hello again gentle reader. Its Sunday, so lets slip on the comfy slippers of time and put our feet up on the couch of time.

1397: At the court of Richard II, Geoffrey Chaucer reads the Canterbury tales for the first time.

1937: Daffy Duck makes his cartoon debut in "Porky's Duck Hunt."

1949: The Republic of Ireland is created after years of British rule.

1959: Sean Bean: Actor, model and giant among men is born.

1961: A group of Cuban exiles that had been CIA trained land at the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to depose Fidel Castro.

2014: The first Earth like planet in the habitable zone of its distant star is discovered by NASA.

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