The evidence from L'Anse aux Meadows indicates that Norse explorers did set up the first European settlement in North America about 1000 CE, some five centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot in the Caribbean.
The Missile Crisis , which occurred in October 1962, was a diplomatic incident between the United States and the Soviet Union, over the installation of missiles in Cuba. The event is considered the most tense moment of the Cold War when the world had a real chance of succumbing to nuclear war. Back