May 1, 1960: The Day the U-2 Was Shot Down and Eisenhower Was Caught in a Lie
On May 1, 1960, a secret American U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace. The incident went down in history as a shocking diplomatic scandal in which the President of the United States publicly lied to the world — and got caught — at the height of the Cold War.
May 1, 2026