THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
OCTOBER 1962
| MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY | SUNDAY |
| 1 |
2 |
3 | 4 | 5 | Jet fighters transferred to Florida 6 | 7 |
| 8 |
Are there IRBM sites in Cuba? 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | The Cuban Missile Crisis begins 14 | |
| Photographs reveal missile sites in Cuba 15 |
Kennedy meets with ExComm 16 |
Further missile sires discovered in Cuba 17 | Kennedy meets with Soviet Minister Gromyko 18 | JFK meets with Secretary of defence, McNamara 19 | Kennedy's campaign trip cancelled due to ill health 20 | Kennedy decides on quarantine for time being 21 |
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Kennedy tells public of crisis 22 |
Press print 1st stories of Cuban crisis 23 |
Further press coverage and 1st letter to the editor 24 | Editorial and letters to the Editor concern Cuba 25 | Khrushchev proposes conditional end to crisis 26 | Second conditional proposal to end crisis 27 | Khrushchev agrees to remove missiles from Cuba 28 |
| Media coverage continues 29 | Editorials look to explain crisis 30 | Editorial looks beyond Cuba 31 |
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