oct 16, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crises

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leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. United States President Kennedy also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey.

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