Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed at Le Bourget Field
in Paris, successfully completing the first solo, nonstop
transatlantic flight and the first ever nonstop flight
between New York to Paris.

His single-engine monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, had
lifted off from Roosevelt Field in New York 33 1/2 hours
before.

The Spirit of St. Louis on display at the National Air and
Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution in Washington,
DC.

At 7:52 a.m., American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh took
off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, on the
world’s first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
and the first ever nonstop flight between New York to Paris.

Lindbergh, a young airmail pilot, was a dark horse when he
entered a competition with a $25,000 payoff to fly nonstop
from New York to Paris.

He ordered a small monoplane, configured it to his own
design, and christened it the Spirit of St. Louis in tribute
to his sponsor–the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce.

Lindbergh’s achievement made him an international celebrity
and won widespread public acceptance of the airplane and
commercial aviation.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh
(February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)

The body of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh’s baby was found
on May 12, 1932, more than two months after he was kidnapped
from his family’s Hopewell, New Jersey, mansion.

Lindbergh, who became the first worldwide celebrity five years
earlier when he flew The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic,
and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh discovered a ransom note
in their 20-month-old child’s empty room on March 1.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh
(February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)

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Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922)

On March 1, 1932, in a crime that captured the attention of
the entire nation, Charles Lindbergh Jr., the 20-
month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh 
and  Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was kidnapped from
the family’s new mansion in Hopewell, New Jersey.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone (1899 – 1947)  

The Lindbergh’s were inundated by offers of
assistance and false clues. Even Al Capone
offered his help from prison.