jul 18, 1955 - The 1955 Geneva Summit - a meeting of the leaders of the US, Soviet Union, Britain, and France.
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"Khrushchev… rejected a proposal from Eisenhower, at their first summit conference in Geneva in 1955, to allow the US and the Soviet Union to fly reconnaissance missions over each other’s territory: it would have been, he complained like seeing into our bedroom." (Gaddis 2006, p. 72-73)Added to timeline:
Date:
jul 18, 1955
Now
~ 70 years ago