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1962: Cuba
On the morning of Oct. 24, 1962, the United States established a massive and dramatic 'quarantine,' or blockade, of Cuba, and for nearly a month an armada of destroyers and cruisers and an amphibian task force patrolled the island's waters to intercept and search, by force if necessary, Soviet...
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