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Cuban Missile Crisis begins

Cuban Missile Crisis begins

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An American U-2 reconnaissance plane photographs a Soviet nuclear missile construction site in San Cristobal, Cuba, confirming the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

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Year
1962
Date of Event

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