TODAY IN HISTORY

On May 12, 1932, the body of Charles Lindbergh

Jr., the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was found.

In 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift.

In 1958, the United States and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (later the North American Aerospace Defense Command).

In 1986, “Top Gun,” starring Tom Cruise and Kelly

Mcgillis had its world premiere in New York.

In 2008, an earthquake in China’s Sichuan province left more than 87,000 people dead or missing.

In 2017, dozens of countries were hit with a huge cyberextortion attack that locked computers and held users’ files for ransom at hospitals, companies and government agencies.