Cold War U-2 Spyplane Shot Down Over Soviet Union May 1, 1960
Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
Date: May 1, 1960
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