What conflict lasted 13 days and threatened global nuclear war?

The Cuban Missile Crisis is the conflict that lasted 13 days from October 16 - 28, 1962 and threatened global nuclear war. It also also called as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis or the Missile Scare it was confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. 

False : "the strike began on september 8, 1965"