oct 16, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis.

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"The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Dates: 16 Oct 1962 – 29 Oct 1962"

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