‘’LUCKY LINDY’’ WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1902
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an aviator, author, inventor, explorer,and
social activist. Lindbergh, then a 25-year old U.S. Air Mail pilot, emerged to
almost instantaneous world fame as the result of his solo non-stop flight on
May 20-21, 1927, from Roosevelt Field on New York’s Long island to Paris,
France, a distance of nearly 3,600 miles in the Spirit of St. Louis, a single-
seat, single-engine monoplane (shown below). Lindberg, who was an
officer in the U.S. Army reserve, was awarded the nations highest
military decoration, the Medal of Honor. He died in 1974 at age 72.
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FIRST USE OF PAPER MONEY IN AMERICA ~ ON THIS DATE IN 1690
In the early 1690s, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was the first of the Thirteen
Colonies to issue permanently circulating banknotes. The currency was used
to pay soldiers that were in the war against Quebec.
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