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August 29, 1940

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HEAVY NAZI ATTACK; 1,000 Incendiary Bombs Rained on London in City's Longest Raid BLAST TERRIFIES PEOPLE Germans Hover Over Capital for 7 Hours--Coast Chief Target in Daylight Night Attacks Scattered Southeast Heavily Bombed HEAVY NAZI ATTACK IS MADE ON LONDON

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

London and other Brit cities suffer heavy attacks; incendiary bombs scattered; Midlands, Southeast and Northwest areas bombed; London bombing described; Glasgow Mayor repts city's fighter squadron claims 63 German planes downed since campaign start

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James Brady

1940James Brady, American politician and activist, 15th White House Press Secretary (died 2014)[†]

James Scott Brady was an American journalist, politician, activist and American public official who served as assistant to the U.S. president and the 17th White House Press Secretary, serving under President Ronald Reagan. On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded Brady during Hinckley’s attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, which occurred two months and ten days after Reagan's inauguration.

1940Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (died 1984)[†]

Gary Michael Gabelich was an American motorsport driver who set the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Land Speed Record (LSR) with the rocket car Blue Flame on October 23, 1970, on a dry lake bed at Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah.