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Today in history

1880: Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

1944: The Soviet Union announced the end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.

1951: An era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as a one-kiloton bomb was dropped on Frenchman Flats.

1967: Astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo 1 spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.

1973: The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.

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