TIM MAGUIRE

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the UN Assembly in 1960.

CAMILLE
BOHANNON

On this  day in 1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Following wide initial interest in the crashed "flying disc", the US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon. Interest subsequently waned until the late 1970s, when Ufologists began
promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming
that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed and that the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, which then engaged in a cover-
up.

In the 1990s, the US military published two reports disclosing the true nature
of the crashed object: a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul.

Roswell Army Air Field Intelligence Officer Jesse Marcel, sr. holding
foil debris from Roswell, New Mexico UFO crash site.

TIM MAGUIRE

North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War on this
day in 1950.

CAMILLE
BOHANNON

   
    
  
Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis on the way to Paris.

Crowds race to meet Charles Lindbergh after he lands the Spirit of St. Louis in Paris.

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

On May 20, 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland; she
landed in Ireland nearly 15 hours later, becoming the first woman
to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Amelia Mary Earhart  (July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937)