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This Date in History (July 29)

1914 – Transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco.

1975 – President Gerald R. Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland.

2008 – Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was indicted on seven felony counts of concealing more than a quarter of a million dollars in house renovations and gifts from a powerful oil contractor. (A judge later dismissed the case, saying prosecutors had withheld evidence.)