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Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing…
Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing…
China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American…
Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American…
By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the
Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba
K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned
The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections
Air France Flight 406 is destroyed by a bomb over the Sahara, killing 78
Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bu
Park Chung Hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea
American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore or
The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
The South African Constitution of 1961 becomes effective, thus creating the Republic of South Africa, which remains outs
The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the larg