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may 1, 1960 - U-2 Incident

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- Soviet shot down US spy plane, the U-2, that was flying in Soviet territory to spy on information
- Eisenhower took full responsibility for the U-2 incident, but Khrushchev denounced US and walked out of the Paris summit

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Date:

may 1, 1960
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~ 66 years ago