On May 27th, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island. When he touched down at Le Bourget Aerodrome outside of Paris some 33 hours and 30 minutes later, he became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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