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today in history

HISTOR!CA
  • July 29, 1874

    Politician James Woodsworth, who was first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, was born at Etobicoke, Ont.

  • July 29, 1898

    The last spike was driven on the White Pass and Yukon Railway, from Skagway to Whitehorse.

The Bomber’s Dream is a documentary that looks into the many aspects of aerial bombing, the form of warfare that erased the old distinction between civilians and soldiers. Director Barry Stevens, whose English parents were bombed and whose German cousin bombed England, combines the hidden history of mass and precision bombing with the present-day story of some air strike victims who sue their bombers, finding hope amid the horror.