Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is May 20. One of a series of "copy-cat" school shootings in the wake of the Columbine massacre took place on this date in 1999, when a high school student in Conyers, Ga., opened fire on his classmates -- wounding six of them. The teen then surrendered to school officials. Advertisement That same day, the President and Mrs. Clinton met in Littleton, Colo., with students, teachers and families of the victims of the previous month's shootings at Columbine High School that had left 15 dead, including the two alleged gunmen. 25-year-old aviator Charles Lindbergh took off from Long Island, N.Y., on this date in 1927 in a monoplane named the "Spirit of St. Louis," bound for Paris. He landed 33 1/2 hours later, completing the first solo, non-stop trans-Atlantic flight and winning a $25,000 prize offered for the first non-stop flight between New York and Paris. The "flying fool," as he'd been dubbed by some doubters, became "Lucky Lindy" and a world hero. In another aviation milestone, it was on this date in 1932 that Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland, Canada, on the first solo trans-Atlantic flight by a woman. She landed 13 ½ hours later near Londonderry, Ireland. Advertisement And it was on this date in 1974 that Judge John Sirica ordered President Nixon to turn over tapes and other records of 64 White House conversations on the Watergate affair. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
