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Overflights begin
Defense Intelligence Agency orders Air Force-operated U-2 aircraft to scan suspected soviet missle sites in Cuba. -
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Two week crisis in the Caribbean
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President notified
President John. F Kennedy is notified that aerial photography confirms the presence of soviet ballistic missles capable of carrying nuclear payload in western Cuba. -
Presidential adress
In a national televised adress, President Kennedy announces the discovery of the missiles. -
UN suprise
US Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Adlai Stevenson confronts Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin in an emergency meeting of the Security Council. Reveals to the world aerial photography of the missles. -
Crisis ends
President Khrushchev anounces on Radio Moscow that the soviet goverment will stop further work at the missle sites and withdraw the weapons from Cuba.
