TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT May 20, 1956

The United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

ON THIS DATE 1916

The Saturday Evening Post published its first Norman Rockwell cover; the illustration shows a scowling boy dressed in his

Sunday best, dutifully pushing a baby carriage past a couple of boys wearing baseball uniforms.

1927

Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France.

1932

Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. (Because of weather and equipment problems, Earhart set down in Northern Ireland instead of her intended destination, France.)