Dwight D. Eisenhower - U.S. one-man U-2 spy plane was reportedly shot down at high altitude over Soviet airspace

Time: Sunday May 1, 1960

Place: U.S.S.R.

Details: On May 1, 1960, a U.S. one-man U-2 spy plane was reportedly shot down at high altitude over Soviet airspace. The flight was made to gain photo intelligence before the scheduled opening of an east-west summit conference, which had been scheduled in Paris, 15 days later.

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Holy Roman Empire-Albert was assassinated (Albert I of Germany)

Tuesday May 1, 1308 - Windisch, Austria

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Sunday May 1, 1464 - Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom

Johann Sebastian Bach-Mother's Death

Saturday May 1, 1694 - Eisenach, Germany

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Saturday May 1, 1773 - Salzburg, Austria

May 1960

John F. Kennedy-Saint Anselm College Speech

Thursday May 5, 1960 - Saint Anselm College, Goffstown, New Hampshire, U.S.

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon-Margaret married Armstrong-Jones

Friday May 6, 1960 - London, England, United Kingdom

Laser-Theodore H. Maiman operated the first functioning laser

Monday May 16, 1960 - Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, California, U.S.

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Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle hosted a superpower summit

Tuesday May 17, 1960 - Paris, France

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Juan Carlos I-Education

1960 - Complutense University of Madrid, Av. Séneca, Madrid, Spain

Harald V-Education

1960 - Oxford, England

Algerian War-Major demonstrations in Algiers

1960 - Algiers, Algeria

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Akio Morita-Producing The First Transistor Television In The World

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