Thursday, October 14
The 287th day of the year 78 days left
Today in history
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins on October 14, 1962, bringing the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear conflict. Photographs taken by a high-altitude U-2 spy plane offered incontrovertible evidence that Soviet-made mediumrange missiles in Cuba— capable of carrying nuclear warheads—were now stationed 90 …