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may 1, 1960 - U-2 Incident The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace

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may 1, 1960
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~ 66 years ago

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