Today in History Today is Wednesday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2021. There are 233 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: 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 1780, during the Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, South Carolina, surrendered to British forces. In 1937, Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey; his wife, Elizabeth, was crowned as queen consort. In 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. The two-week Trident Conference, headed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, opened in Washington. In 1955, Manhattan’s last elevated rail line, the Third Avenue El, ceased operation. In 1958, the United States and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (later the North American Aerospace...
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