After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands
near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, becoming the 1st transatlantic
solo flight by a woman.
Amelia Mary Earhart
(July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937)
(declared dead January 5, 1939)
On May 21, 1927, 25 year old Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris’
Le Bourget Field at 10:22 p.m. local time, completing the first solo,
nonstop transatlantic flight. Aboard The Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris in a span of 33 ½ hours. He was greeted
in Europe by a large crowd of up to 100,000.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh
(February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)
In Washington, D.C., humanitarians Clara Barton (below) and
Adolphus Solomons founded the American National Red Cross,
an organization established to provide humanitarian aid to victims
of wars and natural disasters in congruence with the International
Red Cross.
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912)
Spam is a brand of canned cooked pork made by Hormel
Foods Corporation. It was introduced by Hormel in 1937
and gained popularity worldwide after its use during World
War II.
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On May 19, 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left)
and U.S. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt (right) set a date for
the cross-Channel landing that would become D-Day, May 1, 1944
but, that date would prove a bit premature, as bad weather became
a factor.
Addressing a joint session of Congress, Churchill warned that the
real danger at present was the “dragging-out of the war at enormous expense” because of the risk that the Allies would become “tired or bored or split”—and play into the hands of Germany and Japan. He pushed for an early and massive attack on the “underbelly of the
Axis.”
