Today In History

Fri., May 21, 1999

1927: Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

1542: Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.

1832: The first Democratic National Convention got under way, in Baltimore.

1840: New Zealand was declared a British colony.

1881: Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

1924: 14-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a “thrill killing” committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two students at the University of Chicago.

1956: The United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

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