Timeline Sunday 1 May 1960

Events on Sunday 1 May 1960 2

• 1960 Dwight D. Eisenhower and the U-2 incident A U-2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union, wrecking the Paris summit two weeks later.
• 1960 U-2 spy plane shot down over Soviet Union Gary Powers captured, Paris summit collapses Soviet forces shoot down an American U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk and capture its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. The incident derails a planned Paris summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev and deepens Cold War tensions.