Which event occurred in October of 1962, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis?

In October 1962, U.S. spy planes photographed Soviet missile sites being built in Cuba. The photographs revealed the missiles to President Kennedy and sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis. The failed invasion by Cuban exiles in choice C was the Bay of Pigs invasion, which happened in 1961, not October 1962.

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