may 1, 1960 - U2 incident
Description:
[what] 2 weeks before Paris conference, USSR shot down US spy plane (U2) over USSR; proved US was spying on Russia (when they said no to open skies policy 1955, US went through w it secretly)[response] Eisenhower made mistake of admitting it was true → Khrushchev denounced US and walked out of Paris summit
Added to timeline:
Date:
may 1, 1960
Now
~ 65 years ago