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On the date
Wednesday, December 18, 1901
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The Headlines
KHARKOFF STUDENT TROUBLES.; Recent Disorders Caused by a Demand that Students Who Were Law-Abiding in 1899 Be Expelled.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- J. J. Thomson (1856)
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863)
- Paul Klee (1879)
- Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626)
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
45,460 days ago
(124 years, 200 days)