29 Sep 1770
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The day before his death at age 56, English revivalist George Whitefield prayed: 'Lord Jesus, I am weary in thy work, but not of it.'
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29 Sep 1803
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The first Roman Catholic Church in Boston was formally dedicated. (Catholics had not been permitted any religious freedom within this predominantly Puritan colony prior to the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.)
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29 Sep 1911
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Italy declared war on Turkey.
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29 Sep 1924
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Miles Browning was certified a US Navy pilot.
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29 Sep 1927
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Georg Wulf, co-founder of the Focke-Wulf aircraft company, was killed when his radically-designed tail-first Focke-Wulf Fw 19 aircraft crashed whilst making a public demonstration.
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29 Sep 1927
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Georg Wulf, co-founder of the Focke-Wulf aircraft company, was killed when his radically-designed tail-first Focke-Wulf Fw 19 suffered a broken control rod, resulting in a fatal crash during a public demonstration.
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29 Sep 1930
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HMS Hermes departed Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom for Sheerness in Kent, England, United Kingdom.
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29 Sep 1931
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The Soviet Union declared neutrality in the conflict between China and Japan in northeastern China (Manchuria).
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29 Sep 1933
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Germany passed a hereditary farm law that protected farmers against potential predatory practices by financial institutions, but it also bound the farmers to the land comparable to serfs of the Medieval era.
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29 Sep 1936
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The Spanish Republican destroyer Almirante Juan Fernandez was sunk by the Nationalist cruiser Canarias during a naval battle off the coast near Gibraltar.
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29 Sep 1936
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ShCh-317 was commissioned into service with Captain V. A. Yegorov in command.
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29 Sep 1937
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Japanese aircraft sank Chinese gunboat Chuyou.
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29 Sep 1938
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The Munich Conference between Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, and Daladier took place at the Führerbau building in München in Germany, during which Britain and France ceded Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia to Germany in an attempt to avoid war. The two Czechoslovakian representatives at the conference were locked in an adjacent room, not permitted to actually participating in the negotiations.
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29 Sep 1938
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Viktor Abakumov was named the assistant to the head of the 2nd Section in the 2nd Department of the GUGB of the Soviet NKVD.
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29 Sep 1939
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Russia signed pacts with Estonia and Finland.
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29 Sep 1939
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Japanese troops reached the outskirts of Changsha, Hunan Province, China; the Japanese had thus far suffered 40,000 casualties on this assault.
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29 Sep 1939
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Adolf Hitler issued a repatriation order for the 86,000 ethnic Germans living in Estonia and Latvia, knowing that the Soviet Union would soon demand the Baltic States.
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29 Sep 1939
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With the formal surrender of Poland, including the last 35,000 besieged troops in Modlin, the Germany and Soviet Union finished dividing up Poland.
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29 Sep 1939
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Joseph Rochefort was ordered to transfer to heavy cruiser Indianapolis currently based out of San Pedro, California, United States.
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29 Sep 1940
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Having dispersed Allied convoy OB-218 with previous attacks, German submarine U-32 caught up with British ship Bassa, now sailing alone, from behind and damaged her with a torpedo near the stern southwest of the island of Rockall between Britain and Iceland at 0053 hours. Bassa's crew members were observed by U-32 to have abandoned ship, but captain George Edward Anderson, the other 48 members of the crew, and the 1 navy gunner were never to be seen again.
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29 Sep 1940
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British warships from Alexandria, Egypt bombarded the coastal road in Libya and attacked Italian shipping along the Libyan coast.
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29 Sep 1940
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While at sea, Scirè's mission to raid Gibraltar with manned torpedoes was canceled.
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29 Sep 1940
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At 1600 hours, a large group of German aircraft, mostly fighters, conducted a sweep in Kent in southern England, United Kingdom; this sweep failed to draw British fighters. Overnight, London was heavily bombed, while Liverpool was also attacked.
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29 Sep 1940
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The US Marine Corps Midway Detachment of the Fleet Marine Force, under the command of Major Harold C. Roberts, arrived on Midway and began making camp and installing defenses.
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29 Sep 1941
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Reinhard Heydrich was named Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
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29 Sep 1941
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The first Allied convoy for the Arctic departed Hvalfjörður, Iceland (having originated from Scotland, United Kingdom) at 1845 hours with 11 merchant ships escorted by cruiser HMS Suffolk, destroyer HMS Antelope, destroyer HMS Impulsive, and four minesweepers. By the end of the year five other convoys had followed it, landing 120,000 tons of supplies at Murmansk, Russia, including 600 tanks, 800 aircraft and 1,400 motor vehicles. It was somewhat embarrassing to the Germans that, between 29 Sep and 31 Dec 1941, all 55 vessels of these first six convoys reached their destination without loss.
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29 Sep 1941
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Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, British Minister of Supply Lord Beaverbrook, and American envoy Harriman met in Moscow, Russia to discuss lend-lease aid to the Soviet Union.
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29 Sep 1941
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Soviet submarine ShCh-319 attacked German minesweepers M151 and M203 off Liepaja, Latvia and then disappeared; she was presumed lost after striking a naval mine.
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29 Sep 1941
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Adolf Hitler ordered that Leningrad, Russia was to be wiped out by artillery and aerial bombardment. Germany could not and would not feed its population, which was of no use for the future of Germany.
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29 Sep 1941
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Light carrier Hosho was relieved the duty of being Carrier Division 3's temporary flagship.
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29 Sep 1941
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After sundown, 10 bombers of British No. 102 Squadron were launched from RAF Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for an attack on Stettin, Germany; the anti-aircraft fire was reported to be heavy. Another group of bombers took off to attack Hamburg, Germany.
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29 Sep 1941
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Allied convoy PQ-1 departed Hvalfjörður, Iceland.
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29 Sep 1941
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The German Einsatzgruppen massacred somewhere between 50,000 and 96,000 Ukrainians, 33,771 of whom Jews, at the Babi Yar ravine outside Kiev.
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29 Sep 1941
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Soviet resistance prevented the Germans from moving from southern Ukraine into the Krym (Crimea) region of Russia.
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29 Sep 1942
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HMS Activity was commissioned into service.
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29 Sep 1942
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Three British Royal Air Force Squadrons (Nos. 71, 121 and 133) were transferred to the United States Army and redesignated as the 334, 335 and 336th Fighter Squadrons. These units had previously been established under British commanding officers with American pilots who, prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, were among the 9,000 Americans who had crossed the border into Canada to volunteer to join the Royal Canadian Air Force at the start of the war in Europe.
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29 Sep 1942
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Repair ship Akashi began repairing escort carrier Taiyo at Truk, Caroline Islands.
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29 Sep 1942
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Max Merten was informed that, as of 1 Oct 1942, he would be the head of the Administrative and Economic Department of the German occupation administration in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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29 Sep 1942
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A lone German bomber attacked the rural town of Petworth in Sussex County, England, United Kingdom in the morning, destroying a boys' school; 23 were killed (20 of whom were children), 30 were seriously injured (24 of whom were children). Somerton, Somerset County; Shrewton, Wiltshire County; and Betteshanger Collthbourne, Kent County were also attacked.
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29 Sep 1942
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Seaplane from Japanese submarine I-25 dropped incendiary bombs on a forest in Oregon, United States. No fire was reported.
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29 Sep 1943
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USS Snook damaged a Japanese craft with her deck gun.
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29 Sep 1943
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Lord Gort participated in the Italian surrender ceremony in Valetta harbor in Italy.
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29 Sep 1943
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The minesweeper USS Aspire was transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease act.
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29 Sep 1943
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Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo.
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29 Sep 1943
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USS Mingo departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol.
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29 Sep 1943
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Allied troops captured Pompeii, Italy. Meanwhile, Marshal Badoglio met with General Eisenhower aboard HMS Nelson to sign the armistice and to discuss further plans for the war.
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29 Sep 1943
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Italian resistance fighters and German occupation troops clashed in the Giuseppe Mazzini Square (where a German tank fired on the Italians), the Ponticelli district, the Capodichino military airfield, the Piazza Ottocalli square, and other locations in Naples, Italy. As the scale of the uprising continued to grow, Colonel Walter Schöll began negotiating with some of the Italian leaders, using captured resistance fighters as collateral.
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29 Sep 1943
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The keel of I-403 was laid down by Kawasaki Heavy Industries at Kobe, Japan; the project would soon be canceled, however.
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29 Sep 1943
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USS Harder damaged a Japanese armed trawler off Japan with her deck gun.
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29 Sep 1943
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Naka departed Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands.
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29 Sep 1944
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Canadian troops captured Cape Gris Nez near Calais, France; the Germans and Canadians in the region agreed on a 24-hour truce so that civilians in the area could be evacuated. The news that the Canadians had captured the last remaining gun batteries in the Calais area was greeted with jubilation in the streets of Dover, England, United Kingdom. Since the start of the war, Dover had experienced 187 shelling attacks in addition to numerous bombing and V1 attacks.
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29 Sep 1944
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15 British Lancaster bombers conducted minelaying operation in the Kattegat and off Helgoland, Germany.
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29 Sep 1944
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Corporal John Harper of the British York and Lancaster Regiment led his section across 300 yards of open ground under heavy fire to take enemy positions at Antwerp, Belgium. He then went on alone to clear the advance with grenades until he was killed. For this he would be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
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29 Sep 1944
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USS Wasp arrived at Manus, Admiralty Islands.
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29 Sep 1944
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Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo.
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29 Sep 1944
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British 8th Army reached the Fiumicino River in Italy.
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29 Sep 1944
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Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Hashirajima, Japan.
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29 Sep 1944
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USS Miami arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands.
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29 Sep 1944
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USS Whale made rendezvous with USS Seahorse and received orders to patrol waters in the South China Sea southwest of Taiwan.
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29 Sep 1944
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21 American OSS agents (under Lieutenant Commander Frank Wisner) were dropped into Bucharest, Romania to liberate 1,888 interned Allied airmen. As they evacuated the airmen, they also brought out with them many Romania diplomatic documents to prevent Soviet capture.
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29 Sep 1945
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Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Lenin for the fourth time.
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29 Sep 1945
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Du Yuming established a field headquarters north of Kunming, Yunnan Province, China for the upcoming campaign against General Long Yun.
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29 Sep 1945
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Milton Miles departed Chongqing, China. Irwin Beyerly would take over command of US Navy's Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) organization from Beyerly's headquarters in Shanghai, China.
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29 Sep 1945
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Lavrentiy Beria ordered that the response to inquiries regarding those arrested and executed by the Special Board (OSO) of the Soviet NKVD during WW2 would be that they were sent to imprison for 10-year terms and they were not allowed to send nor receive letters.
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29 Sep 1945
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USS Hoe arrived at New York, New York, United States.
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29 Sep 1947
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USS Brill began a scheduled overhaul at San Francisco Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States.
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29 Sep 1967
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Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'God has very different people who like one another to different degrees.'
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29 Sep 1970
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The New American Bible was published by the St. Anthony Guild Press. It represented the first English version Roman Catholic Bible to be translated from the original Biblical Greek and Hebrew languages. (The Rheims-Douai Version of 1610 had been based on Jerome's Latin Vulgate.)
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29 Sep 1990
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In Washington, DC, the National Cathedral (officially, the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul) was completed after 83 years of construction. Begun in 1907, the Gothic edifice had been used in its incomplete form since 1912.
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