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September 4, 1929

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ZEPPELIN REACHES HOME PORT AT DAWN, ENDING WORLD TOUR; Airship at Friedrichshafen 67 Hours After Leaving Lakehurst Sunday. VAST CROWD GREETS CREW Police Have Difficulty With 60,000 Visitors--Only 200 on Airfield. LIGHTNING SILENCES RADIO Dirigible Loses Time Skirting Storms Over Spain and Near the Azores. ZEPPELIN REACHES HOME PORT AT DAWN The Flight Over Europe. Only 400 Miles to Go. Cabins Lighted Over Bordeaux. Zeppelin Salutes Alfonso. Biscay Storm Avoided. Spanish Flag Unfuried. Zeppelin Made Siberian Discovery Zeppelin Looked for Swiss Fliers.

By the Associated Press

Reaches home port; description of flight across Eur; made valuable geographical discoveries in Siberia

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YEAR'S HOTTEST DAY OPPRESSES THE CITY AS MERCURY HITS 94; Whole East Swelters in Grip of Record Tempatures--No Relief in Sight. RAIL LINES STILL JAMMED Returning Vacationists Tax the Transportation Services Till Late in the Evening. TUNNEL TRAFFIC AT PEAK 149,739 Motor Cars Passed Through Holland Tubes in Three-Day Holiday Period. Humidity Less Yesterday. Beaches Again Crowded. Tunnel Traffic Sets Record. YEAR'S HOTTEST DAY OPPRESSES THE CITY

By Unknown Author

Mercury at 94; hottest day of yr; no relief seen; new traffic records set; returning vacationists tax transportation facilities

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Notable Births

Thomas Eagleton

1929Thomas Eagleton, American lawyer and politician, 38th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (died 2007)[†]

Thomas Francis Eagleton was an American lawyer who served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1968 to 1987. He was briefly the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972. He suffered from bouts of depression throughout his life, resulting in several hospitalizations, which were kept secret from the public. When they were revealed, the McGovern campaign was humiliated, and Eagleton was forced to quit the race. He later became adjunct professor of public affairs at Washington University in St. Louis.

Robert V. Keeley

1929Robert V. Keeley, Lebanese-American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Greece (died 2015)[†]

Robert Vossler Keeley had a 34-year career in the Foreign Service of the United States, from 1956 to 1989. He served three times as Ambassador: to Greece (1985–89), Zimbabwe (1980–84), and Mauritius (1976–78). In 1978–80 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, in charge of southern and eastern Africa.