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Nikita Khrushchev was born on April 15, 1894, in Kalinovka, a village with just over 1,000 inhabitants in southern Russia.
Ninety miles from Florida, the United States quarantined Cuba in response to the Soviet Union's placement of nuclear warheads on the island.
Apollo 11 achieved the first successful manned lunar landing on July 20, 1969, amid a backdrop of Cold War tensions and early American space failures.
For two weeks in October 1962, the world faced the threat of thermonuclear war as the Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles just 90 miles from the U.S.
In October 1962, Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet officer, provided critical intelligence to the CIA that helped prevent nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis.
More than 4,000 kilometers away from Uzbekistan's abandoned town of Moynok, the environmental impact of cotton farming has led to the Aral Sea's drastic shrinkage.
In October 1961, Soviet T-54 tanks faced American M48 Pattons at Checkpoint Charlie during a tense standoff that threatened nuclear escalation.
On September 5, 1960, Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected premier of the Congo, was overthrown in a coup backed by the CIA.
Svetlana Stalin, daughter of Joseph Stalin, defected to the United States in 1967, where she held a press conference that drew significant public attention.
In 1964, Nikita Khrushchev was ousted from power, marking the end of a leadership that brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster.
