TODAY IN HISTORY

1780

During the Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, South Carolina, surrendered to British forces.

1932

The body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was found in a wooded area near Hopewell, N.J.

1943

During World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.

The two-week Trident Conference, headed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, opened in Washington.

1949

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

1958

The United States and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command.

1975

The White House announced the new Cambodian government had seized an American merchant ship, the Mayaguez, in international waters.

Birthdays

Composer Burt Bacharach is 94. Actor

Millie Perkins is 86. Singer-musician Steve Winwood is 74. Actor Gabriel Byrne is 72. Actor Ving Rhames is 63. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 56. Actor Rami Malek is 41. Actor Sullivan Sweeten is 27.