From the day
On the date
Saturday, January 12, 1901
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The Headlines
Dowager Empress Frederick Again Ill.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Jack London (1876)
- Swami Vivekananda (1863)
- Edmund Burke (1729)
- Hermann Göring (1893)
- Charles Perrault (1628)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Transatlantic Radio Signal, Vacuum Cleaner & Meccano.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
45,801 days ago
(125 years, 176 days)