Cuban Missile Crisis

• October 22, 1962
  In a televised speech, US President John F. Kennedy announces that U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba which would house medium-range missiles capable of striking a number of major cities in the US, marking start of Cuban Missile Crisis
• October 23, 1962
  US navy ships begin a blockade of Cuba, to prevent Soviet ships from bringing in supplies to complete building missile bases
• October 27, 1962
  Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev publicly calls for the dismantling of U.S. missile bases in Turkey, which was accepted by US President Kennedy at a later date
• October 28, 1962
  Nikita Khrushchev announces his government's intent to dismantle and remove all offensive Soviet weapons in Cuba
• August 30, 1963
  Hot Line communications link between Washington DC and Moscow begins in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis