The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet nuclear missiles secretly deployed in Cuba. American reconnaissance photographs of missile sites were shown to President John F. Kennedy on 16 October, and a few days later he announced a naval quarantine of Cuba. The two superpowers came closer to nuclear war than at any other time in the Cold War. The crisis was resolved when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to withdraw the missiles, while the United States pledged not to invade Cuba and privately agreed to remove its own missiles from Turkey. A direct line between Washington and Moscow was set up afterwards.
Before and after
- 8 September 1962Establishment of Khao Yai National Park
- from 26 September 1962 to 1 December 1970North Yemen civil war
- 27 September 1962Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring
- from 11 October 1962 to 8 December 1965Second Vatican Council
- from 14 October 1962 to 28 October 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- from 20 October 1962 to 21 November 1962Sino-Indian War
- 8 November 1962Establishment of Pirin National Park
- 11 November 1962Birth of Demi Moore
- 18 November 1962Death of Niels Bohr
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