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American
U-2 spy plane,
piloted by Francis Gary Powers, shot down over Russia (May 1).
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Khrushchev kills
Paris summit conference because of U-2 (May 16). |
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Top Nazi murderer
of Jews, Adolf
Eichmann, captured by Israelis in Argentina (May 23) - executed
in Israel in 1962. |
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Powers sentenced
to prison for 10 years (Aug. 19) - freed in February 1962 in
exchange for Soviet spy. |
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Communist China
and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology. |
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Senegal,
Ghana,
Nigeria,
Madagascar, and Zaire
(Belgian Congo) gain independence.
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Cuba begins
confiscation of $770 million of U.S. property (Aug. 7).
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There are 900
U.S. military advisers in South
Vietnam. |
