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Events on Sunday 4 June 1961 1
1961Vienna SummitKennedy and Khrushchev meet over Berlin and Cold War tensionsPresident Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev held a tense two-day summit in Vienna focused on Berlin, nuclear arms, and Cold War rivalry. Kennedy later described the meeting as one of his toughest encounters, and it preceded the building of the Berlin Wall weeks later.