-- When an Athena headed towards Cuba, attempts to alert Cuban authorities through the Swiss embassy in Havana failed because it was closed on Sunday.
-- An SS-N-8 "Sawfly," in 1983.
-- Fragments of a Thor missile launching a satellite fell on Cuba in November 1960. Castro's government sold the Vernier chamber of the propulsion system to China which used the pieces to design the second stage of its CSS-4 ICBM.