TODAY IN HISTORY

On May 20, 1916, the Saturday Evening Post published its first Norman Rockwell cover.

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from New York, aboard the Spirit of St.

Louis on his historic solo flight to France.

In 1956, the United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

In 1961, a white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Alabama, prompting the federal government to send in U.S. marshals to restore order.

In 1969, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Ap Bia Mountain.

In 2009, the Senate voted overwhelmingly, 90-6, to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open.

In 2015, four of the world’s biggest banks agreed to pay more than $5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to rigging the currency markets.