From the day
On the date
Friday, January 25, 1901
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The Headlines
INDIANS THREATEN A TOWN.; Armed Creeks Numbering 600 May Attack Bristow, I.T. -- Indians Prohibit Leases to Whites.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Virginia Woolf (1882)
- Robert Burns (1759)
- Robert Boyle (1627)
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874)
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736)
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
45,787 days ago
(125 years, 162 days)