TODAY IN HISTORY

May 21, 1927

Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 33 1/2 hours.

ON THIS DATE

1881

Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

1945

Actors Humphrey Bogart, 45, and Lauren Bacall, 20, were married at Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio (it was his fourth marriage, her first, and would last until Bogart’s death in 1957).

1955

Chuck Berry recorded his first single, “Maybellene,” for Chess Records in Chicago.

1991

former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated during national elections by a suicide bomber.