Today is May 12. On this date in:
1780
During the Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, South Carolina, surrendered to British forces.
1872
The Main Street Incline, also known as the Mount Auburn Incline, opened in Cincinnati.
1932
The body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was found in woods near Hopewell, New Jersey.
1937
Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey; his wife, Elizabeth, was crowned as queen consort.
1943
During World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.
1949
The Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift.
1958
The U.S. and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (later the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD).
1978
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that hurricanes would no longer be given only female names.
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