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Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (Lucky Lindy; alias Careu Kent)
Born: 1902 AD
Died: 1974 AD, at 72 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
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Died: 1974 AD, at 72 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
US aviator
made 1st solo nonstop trans-Atlantic airplane flight 1927, flying from Roosevelt Field in New York to Le Bourget Air Field in Paris in monoplane The Spirit of St. Louis
1st "Time" magazine Man of the Year 1927
prominent opponent of US entry into World War II
wrote memoir "The Spirit of St. Louis" 1953 (Pulitzer Prize for biography 1954)
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