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Today in History highlights from July 29, 1973
Highlights recount events on this date including transcontinental telephone service starting in 1914, air mail in 1920, Germany’s WWII air blitz in 1940, B29 fire bombs on Japanese cities in 1945, a Paris peace conference in 1946, Hawaii statehood in 1958, the Forrestal fire in 1967, and De Gaulle’s nuclear stance ten years earlier. Birthdays listed: Owen Lattimore, Paul Taylor, Melvin Belli.
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