A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Powers had been sentenced to 10 years’ confinement in the USSR but, amidst concerns that he might reveal any remaining secrets to the Soviet authorities, the U.S. government agreed to exchange Powers and imprisoned student Frederic Pryor in return for Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel.
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