Raised in Little Falls, Minnesota , Charles Lindbergh would later recall gazing at the sky through the trees at his boyhood home - maples, oaks and hickories. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, (1902-1974), an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him, but Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. Lindbergh's feat gained him immediate, international fame. The press named him "Lucky Lindy" and the "Lone Eagle." Americans and Europeans idolized the shy, slim young man and showered him with honors.