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On the date
Thursday, August 22, 1901
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The Headlines
MRS. BECKHAM ILL.; Wife of Governor of Kentucky, a Bride of Nine Months, Lying at Point of Death.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Claude Debussy (1862)
- Pope Leo XII (1760)
- Max Scheler (1874)
- Dorothy Parker (1893)
- Denis Papin (1647)
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
45,578 days ago
(124 years, 318 days)