On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union by a surface-to-air missile. Francis Gary Powers â?? a civilian pilot flying for the Central Intelligence Agency â?? was unable to activate the self-destruct mechanism and the plane crashed largely intact. News of the event caused Premier Khrushchev to sto

IBM's computer Deep Blue defeated Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match in 1997.