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oct 16, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis

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The Cuban Missile Crisis was an international issue in 1962 where the Soviet Union positioned nuclear missiles and weapons in Cuba to threaten the United States. This crisis was shortly after the Bay of Pigs, which was a failed US invasion that upset Cuba.

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oct 16, 1962
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~ 63 years ago