Today in history – May 12

1932 – The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was found in a wooded area of Hopewell, N.J.

1937 – Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey.

1949 – The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin blockade.

2002 – Former President Jimmy Carter began a visit to Cuba. He was the first president, in or out of office, to visit the island since communists took over in 1959.