Today is Wednesday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2010. There are 233 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On May 12, 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift.
ON THIS DATE
In 1932, the body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was found in a wooded area near Hopewell, N.J.
In 1937, Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
In 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.
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, or NORAD for short).
In 1975, the White House announced the new Cambodian government had seized an American merchant ship, the Mayaguez, in international waters.
In 1978, the Commerce Department said hurricanes would no longer be given only female names.
In 2005, Microsoft unveiled its Xbox 360 video game console.
In 2009, the government warned that without changes, Social Security would be depleted in 2037, and the Medicare trust fund would become insolvent in 2017.
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