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On the date
Friday, July 4, 1902
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The Headlines
FIRST FIRE OF THE FOURTH; Planing Mills on West Twenty-eighth Street Destroyed. Blaze Started by a Skyrocket Which Fell Upon the Property -- Man and Woman Rescued.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
Hughie Cannon
The must-have
Teddy Bear
You Share a Birthday With
- Calvin Coolidge (1872)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804)
- Murad III (1546)
- Oscar I of Sweden (1799)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Air Conditioner, Hearing Aids & Lie Detector (Polygraph).
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
45,262 days ago
(124 years, 2 days)