Charles Lindbergh

American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)

10 dated entries naming Charles Lindbergh, drawn from 8 separate years between 1902 CE and 1974 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1902February 4 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (died 1974)source
  • 1927May 20–21 – Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic airplane flight, from New York City to Paris, France, in his single-engined aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.source
  • 1928March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for his first transatlantic flight.source
  • 1928March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.source
  • 1932March 1 – Lindbergh kidnapping: Charles Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey. On May 12 he is found dead just a few miles away.source
  • 1940August 4 – U.S. Gen. John J. Pershing, in a nationwide radio broadcast, urges all-out aid to Britain in order to defend the Americas, while Charles Lindbergh speaks to an isolationist rally at Soldier Field in Chicago.source
  • 1941January 23 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress, and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.source
  • 1941April 23 – The America First Committee holds its first mass rally in New York City, with Charles Lindbergh as keynote speaker.source
  • 1972March 23–April 2 – A 47-member expedition conducted by Presidential Assistant for National Minorities (Panamin) which has been headed by Manuel Elizalde Jr., mostly scientists and later joined by one of the agency's directors—American Charles Lindbergh, makes a first visit to the caves inhabited by 25 "surviving" Tasadays, a group of Stone Age-style people discovered in June 1971, in an isolated mountain rainforest in South Cotabato—the "first discovery of cavemen in modern times." The expedition ends as explorers are rescued by the United States Armed Forces.source
  • 1974August 26 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (born 1902)source

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