When did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, and the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. Along with being televised worldwide, it was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full scale all out nuclear war.

An agreement was reached during a secret meeting between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro of Cuba for the construction on a number of nuclear missile launch facilities. Subsequently, the U.S. established a military blockade around Cuba to prevent missiles from entering. The U.S. pointedly announced that it would not permit offensive weapons to be delivered to Cuba.

After a long period of tense negotiations, an agreement was reached between President Kennedy and Khrushchev. Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet Union, subject to United Nations verification, in exchange for a U.S. public declaration and agreement never to invade Cuba without direct provocation. Secretly, the United States also agreed that it would dismantle all U.S. built nuclear weapons, which were deployed in Turkey and Italy against the Soviet Union which were not known to the public.