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Cuba declares Fidel Castro to be the new premier and president
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OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) is founded by Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela to coordinate petroleum production and pricing.
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Intended to overthrow the revolutionary left wing government of Fidel Castro.
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After conferring with Raul Castro, Che Guevara, Osvaldo Dorticos and Blas Roca, Fidel Castro informs the visiting Soviet officials that Cuba will accept the deployment of nuclear weapons.
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Raul Castro and a high-level Cuban military delegation arrive in Moscow
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U.S. intelligence receive several reports of Soviet missiles in Cuba
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The crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict
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President John F. Kennedy goes on national television to announce the presence of Soviet missiles on Cuba and the imposition of an American "quarantine" or naval blockade around Cuba
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