This day in history - July 29

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1914 - The first transcontinental telephone conversation took place.

1952 - A North American RB-45C Tornado completed the first nonstop jet flight across the Pacific from Alaska to Japan.

1958 - President Eisenhower signed a bill that created NASA.

1967 - An accident aboard the USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin killed 134 servicemen and injured 161.



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- Jim