Tag: Missile

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14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

14th October 2026
Tagged as: Castro, Cold War, Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev, Missile, Nuclear, Spying, U-2, USA

A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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26th May 1972: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty at the Moscow Summit

26th May 2026
Tagged as: Brezhnev, Cold War, Detente, ICBM, Missile, Moscow, Nixon, Richard Nixon, SALT, USA, USSR

The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was intended to limit the development and deployment of missile defence systems during the Cold War to avoid further offensive build-up or create incentives for a first strike.

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21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

21st August 2024
Tagged as: ICBM, Missile, Nuclear, Rocket, Russia, Space Race, USSR

After flying 6,000 kilometres, the R-7 Semyorka rocket successfully hit its target in what is now the Kura Missile Test Range in the Russian Far East.

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8th June 1959: The world’s only delivery of ‘Missile Mail’ took place when the United States Post Office Department sent 3,000 letters using a cruise missile

8th June 2024
Tagged as: America, Cold War, Communcation, Mail, Missile, Post, Submarine, United States, USA

The missile was fired from the deck of the submarine USS Barbero towards the Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Mayport, Florida, and completed its 700-mile flight in just 22 minutes.

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9th November 1979: A computer error at NORAD reports that the USSR had fired hundreds of nuclear missiles at the USA

9th November 2023
Tagged as: America, Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Missile, NORAD, Nuclear, Soviet Union, United States, USA, USSR

When news of the incident reached the Soviet Union, party leader Leonid Brezhnev wrote to Carter condemning the ‘tremendous danger’ caused by the error.

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13th June 1944: First V-1 ‘Doodlebug’ flying bomb attack on London

13th June 2021
Tagged as: Bomb, Britain, Civilians, Germany, Missile, Rocket, Second World War

On the 13^th June 1944 the first German attack on Britain using the V-1 flying bomb, otherwise known as the ‘doodlebug’, took place.

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28th October 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis ends with USSR’s agreement to remove missiles

28th October 2019
Tagged as: America, Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Cuba, Kennedy, Khrushchev, Missile, Nuclear, Soviet Union, USA, USSR, War

At 9:00 am on the 28^th October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis ended when Soviet Premier Khrushchev agreed to remove Russian nuclear missiles from the island of Cuba.

Tag: Missile

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

26th May 1972: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty at the Moscow Summit

21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

8th June 1959: The world’s only delivery of ‘Missile Mail’ took place when the United States Post Office Department sent 3,000 letters using a cruise missile

9th November 1979: A computer error at NORAD reports that the USSR had fired hundreds of nuclear missiles at the USA

13th June 1944: First V-1 ‘Doodlebug’ flying bomb attack on London

28th October 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis ends with USSR’s agreement to remove missiles

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland

15th October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at his exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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