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1960 U-2 incident spy aircraft

Took place on May 1, 1960

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On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane, having taken off from Peshawar in Pakistan, was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces in Sverdlovsk, Russia.

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