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“THE LADY WITH THE LAMP” BORN in 1820
Florence Nightingale ( 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910)
Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the
founder of modern nursing.
She came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer
of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organized care
for wounded soldiers at Constantinople.

KIDNAPPED BABY FOUND DESEASED IN 1932

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.
The kidnapper had used a ladder to climb up to the open second-
floor window and had left muddy footprints in the room. In barely
legible English, the ransom note demanded $50,000.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh
(February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)
FIRST ANTI-SPITTING LAW PASSED IN 1896
New York City passed the nation’s first anti-spitting law to
combat tuberculosis, imposing fines and jail time.
By 1910, more than 2,500 arrests are made—despite backlash
from protesters, yep, spitting on anti-spitting signs.

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