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Four million line Fifth Avenue as Lindbergh rides home through a cascade of paper

His mother at his side and Mayor Walker leading the way, the Atlantic flier ends the day at a 500-guest banquet on Long Island.

Three weeks after landing in Paris, Charles Lindbergh came home to a city that had run out of words for what he had done. On June 13, 1927, accompanied by his mother and Mayor Jimmy Walker, Lindbergh rode up Fifth Avenue through a cascade of paper while an estimated four million people lined the route. That evening, 500 guests gathered at Harbor Hill, Clarence MacKay's Long Island estate, for a banquet and dance in his honor — a day that opened the most celebrated homecoming in American aviation history…

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1967

Thurgood Marshall takes the oath; the Supreme Court has its first Black justice

The Senate confirmed Marshall 69–11 on August 30, brushing aside sustained Southern objections; he is sworn in today, October 2.
1966

Warren's court rules 5–4: police must tell suspects they may stay silent before questioning begins

Ernesto Miranda's kidnapping conviction falls; he had signed a "voluntary" confession without ever being told he could refuse to speak or call a lawyer.
1971

The Times begins printing the Pentagon Papers; four presidents, the documents show, misled the country on Vietnam

A 7,000-page classified Defense Department study reveals the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations each obscured the true scope of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.
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Lafayette crossed the Atlantic on his own money and against the French crown's orders, bringing his sword to a force short on officers and supplies.
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1918

2,711 guns open fire before dawn as America's biggest offensive begins

The barrage alone cost about a million dollars a minute, before a single soldier crossed the wire.
1940

Berlin ceremony formalizes Germany, Italy, and Japan into the Axis alliance

The three powers pledge mutual support if any is attacked, carving the world into spheres of control.
1941

Fourteen freighters hit the water at once; Roosevelt calls them Liberty ships

At Baltimore's Bethlehem-Fairfield yard, the President borrows Patrick Henry's own words to name a fleet still unbuilt.
1942

Five Marine battalions cross the Matanikau in a pincer; the Japanese line east of the river breaks

A carefully drawn trap at the river mouth and an inland footbridge catches Japanese troops before they can finish digging in near Henderson Field.
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