This Day in History May 20: The Fall of Mariupol
In the chilly, grey dawn of May 20, 1927, a young pilot named Charles Lindbergh strapped himself into a custom-built monoplane in Long Island, New York. Mud clung to the tires of the Spirit of St. Louis as it labored down the rain-soaked runway, barely clearing the telephone wires at the field’s edge. He was…