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

St Paul's Cathedral

• 604
  Æthelberht of Kent, king of Kent, builds a wooden Anglo-Saxon cathedral dedicated to Saint Paul, the first Saint Paul's Cathedral in London
• 1561
  Saint Paul's Cathedral in London is destroyed by lightning
• September 2, 1666
  Great London Fire, which destroys 80% of London including Saint Paul's Church in five days, begins in house of baker on Pudding Lane
• June 21, 1675
  Sir Christopher Wren begins to rebuild St Paul's Cathedral in London, replacing the old building which has been destroyed by the Great fire
• December 2, 1697
  Saint Paul's Cathedral opens at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London, thirty-two years after the Great Fire